Wednesday wisdom; writing

                               Reading is more important than writing.

                                                            - Roberto Bolaño



Writing, it's my outlet, my everything. But recently I've had a bend in the road consering that. My laptop decided sabotage the thing I like to do most. It stopped me from typing certain letters which I now have to type using the ALT button. Shift, backspace etc, don't work either. It is taking me a very long time to even type a small thing like this one. The fun is gone when you have to do it like that.
I don't know if it  can be fixed, I need my laptop every day for work as well. Until then... not as much blogs as I would like to or perhaps with some  mistakes in them. Sorry.

© KH

Nieuw Lente nieuw begin

Om maar eens met een oude deur in huis te vallen... Het is Lente, een nieuw begin dus even een nieuwe look. Die oude daar deden we al een paar jaar mee en die mocht wel eens opgepimpt worden of versimpelt ook wel. Het werd een beetje rommelig. Of ik deze houd weet ik nog niet helemaal zeker, kan best zijn dat ik nog ga veranderen want ik moet nu via een omweg mijn blog posten zag ik al, best lastig. Kinderziektes zeker van Blogger, maar goed, leuke frisse thema's zaten erbij dus keus genoeg. Verander ik meteen weer mijn blognaam terug in het oude vertrouwde.

Via via kreeg ik te horen dat men gehoord had dat Google (waar Blogger tenslotte van is) misschien we het hele bloggedeelte af ging stoten vanwege de vlog hipe. Leek mij sterk want Vloggen gaat ooit ook vervelen en wie schrijft die blijft. (ze blijven komen die one liners vandaag) En daarin zit m de kneep! Ik schrijf te weinig! Zit ik manlief in zijn nek te hijgen dat hij eens wat meer van zich af moet schrijven, doe ik zelf veel te weinig met mijn eigen overpeinzingen.
Ik blog wel, maar dan alleen de vaste rubrieken. Hopelijk komt daar ook weer verandering in. Ik had de dag willen beginnen met schrijven maar het huishouden riep ook na een paar dagen op bed gelegen te hebben met buikgriep... Er waren ondertussen geen kaboutertjes geweest die het gedaan hebben.

Dus hopelijk krijg ik meer inspiratie en komt het toch allemaal weer goed.
Zo'n 'writing prompt' als een paar jaar geleden zou ook wel helpen, maar die moet je echt goed zoeken. Die liggen niet voor t oprapen.

Alles sal reg kom.

© KH

Lacking inspiration

Writing is a thing I love a lot. I was going to do it lots more than I'm doing now. I promised myself I would . But I'm lacking inspiration or as I'm telling myself; I'm lazy. 

A lot of people are making travel plans, write about it cheerfully but with our current financial state we just can't travel or do other things for that matter. It's nothing to be ashamed of, lots of people can't go away but it's something I a saddened about to be honest. I miss to travel to the UK and Scotland. To sniff up other cultures if only for a little while. 

But on the other hand I am quite content in my little corner of the world and maybe that's just it; Maybe that's just what I don't need, to be content or having become a stay-at-home. 

It is what it is, it has become a very small world indeed, your own little (very safe) corner of the world. For now it's all I need or want and are content with. 

Just a calm excistance is nice. Not the hectic life with a lot of stress I once had. I find that stress does weird things with my body. I get more tiny seizures of epilepsy if there's been a stressful period. So avoiding stress and being in my own little corner of the world is just right, right now. 

Namasté. 

© KH 

Grateful

That I miss the challenges or prompts is no biggy but why not write about one thing in particular every day or two days whenever I have the time. Just whatever comes to mind.

Like this for instance; Being Grateful
We often are ungrateful about things and don't show our gratitude towards things that happen in our lives or things we do have, rather the things we don't. What are you grateful for in yours? Do you express those things to your loved ones? Or do you only nag when they do something you don't like?

I find I do the latter a lot of the times instead of being grateful. I really don't like that about myself.

So here's a list of the things I'm grateful for;not necessarily in that order

- Having a loving family
- my dog still having her health in her old age
- My home and garden with all those lovely birds in it
- My hub doing the ironing
- The times when my sis and I are going on daytrips together
- My online friends, whoever said it is not possible, it is!
- Writing, I couldn't live without it
- Same goes for editing pics
- Books! 
- Rainy days, coffee, and books ;)
- Scotland
- Being able to be me, myself
- Life in general

I probably forgot some things but that's the idea anyway.

What are you grateful for?

© KH

30 Days Challenge 26, Ordinary

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. 

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are our most potent at our most ordinary. And yet most of us discount our “ordinary” because it is, well, ordinary. Or so we believe. But my ordinary is not yours. Three things block us from putting down our clever and picking up our ordinary: false comparisons with others (I’m not as good a writer as _____), false expectations of ourselves (I should be on the NYTimes best seller list or not write at all), and false investments in a story (it’s all been written before, I shouldn’t bother). What are your false comparisons? What are your false expectations? What are your false investments in a story? List them. Each keep you from that internal knowing about which Emerson writes. Each keeps you from making your strong offer to the world. Put down your clever, and pick up your ordinary.

I don't know but I probably have put down every false expectation already. I love to write, that's the reason why I keep at it. Writing fanfiction does that for you, your expectations aren't that high anymore, you write just as much for yourself as for others who will read it. I don't have the expectation I will be a famous writer one day or a published one. I know that there are better writers but I also know that I am not that bad, there are worse writers as well! If I read my own short stories sometimes and the twists and turns a story makes I am sometimes surprised at my own writing and wonder why I can't make it through a novel. Why I can't make it even through a longer fanfic with multiple chapters? I think it's because I don't have the patience (yet) and give a lot of the story away too early, or am too hasty to start another one.
The way I work isn't the way others work. I know that. I don't sit on a story for weeks or months on end. I sit down, start writing and the story comes and writes itself. I often don't know myself how it's going to end when I begin writing it. But when it's finished I am often pleasantly surprised at how it has ended.
You should never compare yourself to others I think. You are you and so is your writing. As Daan once said to me; You are writing for yourself first and foremost.
That's true of course; If anyone wants to read it, fine, but you want to write it and that's more important.

© KH