Thought

by Mitchell

I'm sure if you're a regular reader of the daily thought you'll know that I am one of those people who can focus (read obsess) over certain things.  I'm sure my doctor wishes I could give it a rest at 3am, but for some reason that's the time I seem to do my best thinking.  This is not a great thing when my alarm is set for 4:17am.  I do realize sleeping is an imporatant part of physcial and mental health and all, but...

My latest obsession is this creative writing course I'm taking through Emory University Extension.  My second class in the program began on Tuesday night.  We will be learning the narrative structure: acutally creating story from the beginning, through some sort of middle, and, hopefuly, reaching a conclussive end.   Each week, one of my classmates and I will be in the hotseat workshopping each others writing.  See?  A bit of added stress.  What I find fascinating about my process, is that when I'm in the middle of creating a story, I can't seem to put it down.  The last two mornings, before I got in the car to come to work, I made a detour to my desk to quickly jot down the sentences I had been forming in my semi-sleep mind.  

I tell myself not to be result oriented.  And I think I'm (sort of) working in that mindset.  The good news is I truly am enjoying that thrilling feeling of sitting in front of a blank screen of nothing that will eventually become something.  It's like Georges Seurat said, "Think of the possibility!"  

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