WRITER
"I want to write, I really do
Maybe pen some thoughts about me and you
I sit and stare at the display screen bare
What can I write, there's nothing there
"Hello" dear MIND I plead with you
Just give me something, old or new
Oh WOW that's it, I'm typing words
No good, DELETE, are these nouns or verbs?
Let's try some more, oh crap, DELETE
MIND gives me nothing, I can't compete
Bestsellers to films how do they do it
Not even a paragraph, I think I blew it
Damn what's the use I'll take a nap
I lay with my demons, the DELETE key attacks
I will not succumb, DELETE even my thoughts
My MIND will not function, a whole lotta noughts
But then as I struggled in meditative repose
Closed my eyes and could see a book written, by ME, I suppose
See my MIND was relaxed, my thoughts nourished in glory
No more need to DELETE, MIND has created a STORY"
- TriggerDot
aka Brendan Lauritz
You can WRITE if you follow the light.... For those of you who have been on this long Journey with me you will know that for most of my adult life I was a Corporate head, you know running around aimlessly trying to take care of Busyness. Hmmm....
You will also know that THAT didn't work. Then greedy boy here paid the price and slid, very shamefully under his rock where he lived for many years. But it's not all baaaad. I wouldn't have said it five years ago, but in fact it's turned out good, maybe even better-erer. And the reason for that is because I have been able to re-write my STORY. The story of me to ME. The re-invention. The comeback. The Journey. Whatever you want to call it. The STORY is what it's all about. Before the smash and crash I was just existing, as I have said soooo many times. The story prior to the crash was pretty much stock standard. I was 'out-there' I guess and carried on like a stiff on steroids. But there wasn't a story much different to most. Maybe a few funnneeee moments, hilarious ones even. But not an interesting book type story. Nup. Uuh Uhh. But then shit happened. Things got tough and I had to live rough.......
And then along came stoooory, doo doo do do do dodo doo doo, alooong came stoooory... doo doo doo do do do dododoo, cooool talkin' stooory.............
You will also know that THAT didn't work. Then greedy boy here paid the price and slid, very shamefully under his rock where he lived for many years. But it's not all baaaad. I wouldn't have said it five years ago, but in fact it's turned out good, maybe even better-erer. And the reason for that is because I have been able to re-write my STORY. The story of me to ME. The re-invention. The comeback. The Journey. Whatever you want to call it. The STORY is what it's all about. Before the smash and crash I was just existing, as I have said soooo many times. The story prior to the crash was pretty much stock standard. I was 'out-there' I guess and carried on like a stiff on steroids. But there wasn't a story much different to most. Maybe a few funnneeee moments, hilarious ones even. But not an interesting book type story. Nup. Uuh Uhh. But then shit happened. Things got tough and I had to live rough.......
And then along came stoooory, doo doo do do do dodo doo doo, alooong came stoooory... doo doo doo do do do dododoo, cooool talkin' stooory.............
TYPE then WRITE. But grab a STORY first! Most of us live to survive, like I used to myself. There isn't much of a story if we all do the same thing. I wouldn't buy a book about a kid who goes to school and college, has a few jobs with moderate success, gets married and has a couple of kids and..... well I wouldn't expect you to buy me. But then my life changed dramatically...... and so did the story. Without knowing, step by step I began to CREATE my new STORY. A different story with real life characters. A unique story that would change the way I existed. And more particularly the way I would THINK.
At the time I needed help in a hurry. I was one of 'those' ones that thought the baaaad stuff only happened to other people. I used to read their stories in the paper. Then right out of the blue I became one of them! Oh Oh. But it wasn't really a story that anybody else could be expected to find interesting. It happens to everybody else every other day.
So where did the STORY come from. I'm sure you know. The STORY came from my MIND. And the reason for that is because I CHANGED MY MIND. I changed the way that I was THINKING. My THOUGHTS changed and along with the change came a unique story and the way I am telling it, by WORKING BACKWARDS. So....
At the time I needed help in a hurry. I was one of 'those' ones that thought the baaaad stuff only happened to other people. I used to read their stories in the paper. Then right out of the blue I became one of them! Oh Oh. But it wasn't really a story that anybody else could be expected to find interesting. It happens to everybody else every other day.
So where did the STORY come from. I'm sure you know. The STORY came from my MIND. And the reason for that is because I CHANGED MY MIND. I changed the way that I was THINKING. My THOUGHTS changed and along with the change came a unique story and the way I am telling it, by WORKING BACKWARDS. So....
CREATE THE STORY .... CHANGE YOUR MIND Right now I am sitting at a computer at the local Library talking (writing) to you in BLOG thingie. Not even an hour ago I had no idea what I was going to BLOG about. But then I started looking at and through all of the books. Thousands of them. All written by different authors. Non-fiction where the stories are based on EXPERIENCES, and Fiction where the stories are based on the IMAGINATION. I have no doubt the reason I am writing about STORIES is because of the environment I am in. Anybody can write. We all learn to write at school. It is one of our basic life learning skills. But writing something that will be read by others. THAT is another skill entirely. And from the little I have learned so far writing is only as good as the STORY to be told. The little poem above is pretty much on the mark. Like most writers everybody will get 'writer's block' where it just doesn't come out the way you know it should be. So all you do is stare at the screen while you think, or you write and DELETE, write and DELETE. But.....
If you go for a nap or some ME time and find a place of reverie just allowing yourself to BE, then at some stage the STORY will come. When it does your fingers will not be able to keep pace with your THOUGHTS!
Your MIND will give you the STORY. All you gotta do is.....
.......CHANGE YOUR MIND.....
If you go for a nap or some ME time and find a place of reverie just allowing yourself to BE, then at some stage the STORY will come. When it does your fingers will not be able to keep pace with your THOUGHTS!
Your MIND will give you the STORY. All you gotta do is.....
.......CHANGE YOUR MIND.....
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