[Blog] Life update: jobs, freelancing and writing motivation

I normally don’t do these actual blog entries, but I thought I’d provide a short update on what’s happening in my life!

You may have noticed my general writing output has declined lately. This is due to a few reasons — one of them is that I’ve actually managed to get a part-time job doing local-area Bondi reporting (this is a good thing!).

Another is that the numerous activities I’m involved in now — music, roleplaying, community radio, theatre, job, socializing — have conspired to eat up a lot of my time that would otherwise be used for writing cool things.

And finally, I’ve been in kind of a writing slump and feeling slump brought on by struggles with free gender expression in a scary normalized society plus writing motivation and purpose things. What is it all for? Why am I doing this? Am I writing in a vacuum?

And why is all the rum gone? (note that I don’t actually drink rum, but it’s still a good question!)

If you’ve ever written anything (or done anything creative whatsoever) I’ve no doubt you’ve felt this too! Congratulations, I have used my writing ability to fill up the internet with more angst. Hoorah!

I’ve also spent time playing way too many video games, which is a sure sign that I’ve not been travelling super well. Even though XCOM: Enemy Unknown is pretty fun, it distracts me from life in a way I’m not too happy with.

Anyway! There’s my update. I have lots of writing projects lined up in front of me, just need the feelings to come back so I can finish them. There’s this pretty good start about McGruff the Crime Dog. I’m excited for it! Hope I can manage it for you and me both soon!

Image credit coralinexnorman on DeviantArt/Gravity Falls.

[Poetry] Anglesmooth

stuffed into the corner
it’s anathema
procrastination central pulling all the stops
my transport never takes me
where I want to go

focus is unlikely
when staring into corners
angles intersecting distract

can’t we round out the corners
creative geometry artfully applied

orthogonality never felt so good
as when we lost it
buried it, in sweeping curves
and bastardized Baroque
sudden turns and sudden stops
abandoned

staring into corners
oh, what a way to go
my motivation rollercoaster
rolling so so slow
and crashing

[Opinion] Riding the enthusiasm rollercoaster

Isn’t it weird how enthusiasm comes and goes?

It’s Thursday morning. The sun is shining even though it’s winter, the unpleasant cold I’ve been nursing has finally surrendered to my white blood cells (busily flexing in minuscule microbial triumph), and I don’t have to be in at the radio station until this afternoon. Hot damn! It’s writin’ time!

Obviously, the gods of Mount Fictolympus have decreed today to be their holy day; today, we will write as has never been written before! All the ideas that have been percolating in my groggy, cold-ridden head for the past few days will know release at last, free to titillate the imagination of the hordes of readers thirsting for their whimsy and poetically piquant phrasing. I’m ready! Time to whip out the ol’ laptop and get writing!