still writing!

Day two of the no inspiration day. I've managed to start the piece though and I'll keep going until I've got something to submit. then I'll have more time to re-do it again afterwards. Just when I think I've got it hard, I was reading the "newspapers" book and found that all the journos for top notch mainstream newspapers don't even get a full lunch. This girl was writing till 2am, went to work at 9am and filed her story by 2pm. Then on to the next story. So why am I complaining? I wish there was a boot camp for writers. That would be good for me.

My friend gave me The Inheritance of Loss, bought all the way from India. I started reading it and I wasn't hooked to keep going. I was also reading Isabel Allende's "The Forest of Pygmies" or something and that didn't hook me either. Which leads me to this comforting conclusion: Not all brilliant writers are consistently brilliant! If Sedai can get a Man Booker Prize for a book that I didn't even read past page 1, I am okay!

Back to the grind like a butcher on Christmas day.

m

looking for inspiration

I'm looking for inspiration for my profile piece. every time i write, i feel like i'm a messenger (which is really what a writer is) speaking on the profilee's behalf. i don't want to mess it up. this is their one second to shine. and it's my inadequacy that's kept me from writing this profile for so long. 6 hours in fact. during that time, i managed to help my mom rearrange my house and move the dining room elsewhere. the house is clean, my bedroom floor's been vacuumed, there are fresh towels on top of my laundry basket but no profile story. i struggle every time. thank goodness a friend of mine said that you would. every story. no matter how long you've been in the game, it's like pulling teeth every time. except for the natural writers. those who were born with a silver pen on their mouth. prattle along and it still reads like prose or poetry.

as for me, i just need to keep looking for inspiration. one of these days i will blossom into something wonderful. my muse will stay put right beside me. in the meantime, i'll be pulling teeth.

m

To Veronica Guerin

Just finished watching "Veronica Guerin" starring Cate Blanchett. This is just a prayer to the universe honoring her role in changing Ireland for the better. It is a shame though that the people were only galvanised after she was killed but I will not question God's decisions. What a journalist. I wish I had that kind of guts to write the kind of stories she did. But I don't. I hope that on the day though, if that ever comes, when I am called on to write the truth, even if it means putting my life on the line, I can draw from her courage for the greater good.