Hoover and I take a Moonday walk on the Springs Trail
Moonday Musings #20
Have you ever tried free-flow writing, musing about whatever is on your mind to see where it takes you? Where you’ll end up?
It’s an interesting process. I’ve been kind of stuck with my words lately. It turns out that I'm a seasonal writer. If there's a blizzard outside and it's freezing cold, great! I can sit in a chair on my computer for hours, look outside and create fantasy worlds in my mind.
But, if the weather is nice, the trees are greening up, the birds are singing and the sun is shining? It's a whole lot harder to sit in that chair.
I'm no longer working so I don't have to go to an office. I pretty much set my own night owl schedule.
What I'm noticing is that if I'm not really productive, doing something of value (who determines that?), I feel guilty. Living a "retired" life has been a paradigm shift. Our society is so geared to working, and work = value as a person. Except it doesn't.
When I left my career as a therapist to stay home to raise my children, I felt compelled to do something valuable. The first thing I did was clean all the closets.
There have been times in my life when I felt extremely productive. This isn’t one of those times.
I’m in a liminal space - between wanting to work on my novel and wanting to be outside. The season here for doing that is short.
Soon enough, it will get cold again and I can sit inside and look out the window. I think I relieved a little guilt by writing about it. Life is meant to be enjoyed, right?
I started walking again. Now there are videos! Is spring weather motivating you to get outside and move your body?
A writer writing about writing. Writing about writing.
