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Stream of Conscience. A writing experiment
Every day I have ideas about things I want to write about. Most of them disappear before I can. This morning in the office, as my desktop loaded up I spoke to a colleague who wants to write. My suggestion to her was to write whenever an idea came to her. The suggestion applies to me as well.
It’s good advice that I’ve decided to take. The first excuse that rears its head is time or a perceived lack thereof. So often, when you choose to do something, your mind will throw up excuses and reasons why you can’t do it. If you choose to, you can usually overcome the excuse. Tell your mind what you want and it usually obeys. I want to write when an idea comes to me.
My task at work today is very repetitive. Each time I complete it, the desktop takes a minute or two to save my work and update the system. There is my opportunity. I can use the minutes between working to write about whatever happens to be on my mind.
For every five ideas, three might not turn into anything worth keeping on paper, two will, and of those, one will be good. That’s nothing but a confident guess based on my experience of writing. The experiment is going to be conducted here. I will grab ideas and type them into existence as they occur. There’s a great word that means to make something real, but I can’t recall it right now. I’ll look it up. I came…
