writing, or something like it.

It is a Wednesday evening and time for bed really and yet I find myself at the keyboard. Like any writer I will strike when the iron is hot. Funnily enough that is somewhat of a writing myth. Strike when the iron is hot, or I am on a roll or in the zone or whatever other phrase we want to use.

Of course there is something to be said for being in the zone and yet there is something to be said also for purely producing a piece of writing. Notice I did not say good writing, just writing. The blank page, the beginning is often hard so the trick for me is just to write. I can start on the second paragraph or the fifth and then go back and find the first. At least that is a technique that works for me. As I write these words I don't know for sure where they will land, only that they needed to be written. As a matter of fact I may be the only person to ever read them. which is fine. I write to work things out. To put pen to page and see what shows itself. Sometimes I like it sometimes not, yet it all moves out and through to make room for the next thing....what is my next thing? Good question. Survey says....