Thank you for bringing us guests this year who shock me out of complacency and make me want to do nothing but use my Voice in service of "crumbling the masks of Empire." This yearʻs 1000 words is taking me places I needed to go and could not until now. Gratitude.
Right off the bat, Jami’s “because you don’t want to waste your time” struck me as funny because I spit out my 1033 words right away in my Mischief Managed Diary. It had nothing to do with life is short, nothing to do with all the distractions in the world. My routine includes emptying my thoughts so I can “get to work.” What happened this morning was something I’d never experienced before. I was emptying all the thoughts about what happened yesterday – not an awful day, not even a bad one, just one that turned out very different than I’d imagined, and I ended with a plausible reason why my character was doing what she was doing that supported my research efforts for the past couple of days. I have a serious case of “things seem to be humming along” and it feels great.
How ironic - I used my 1000 words yesterday (and posted some of them on Substack this morning) to write about how there’s no such thing as wasting time!
Thank you for bringing us guests this year who shock me out of complacency and make me want to do nothing but use my Voice in service of "crumbling the masks of Empire." This yearʻs 1000 words is taking me places I needed to go and could not until now. Gratitude.
Right off the bat, Jami’s “because you don’t want to waste your time” struck me as funny because I spit out my 1033 words right away in my Mischief Managed Diary. It had nothing to do with life is short, nothing to do with all the distractions in the world. My routine includes emptying my thoughts so I can “get to work.” What happened this morning was something I’d never experienced before. I was emptying all the thoughts about what happened yesterday – not an awful day, not even a bad one, just one that turned out very different than I’d imagined, and I ended with a plausible reason why my character was doing what she was doing that supported my research efforts for the past couple of days. I have a serious case of “things seem to be humming along” and it feels great.
How ironic - I used my 1000 words yesterday (and posted some of them on Substack this morning) to write about how there’s no such thing as wasting time!
Wow. Powerful words today from Aria Aber. I plan to check out more of her writing.
My word count for (lucky?) Day 13: 1174--and not at midnight, for a change. (Sometimes last-minute student cancellations are a blessing in disguise.)
Looking forward to tomorrow's grand finale.
The relevancy in this piece blows me away! How timely, how accurately it describes to be a writer in today’s world.
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If life is short, why did 1000 words feel SO LONG today?
The finish line is in sight!!! <3