Bramblings

 Today, in my writing book I was told to tap into my stream of consciousness, to write about whatever was on my mind. Well, I wrote about another incident from my youth. It was raw and powerful. I actually posted it on here and then took it down. I'm really enjoying this work, but, there are some things that are too personal for me to write in a blog about.  I think there are things that are best fleshed out, worked through, and then maybe, just maybe, published formally. The story I wrote about today is part of what I would want in a work like that.  A work that represents either the story of my life or some facsimile of that life. For todays blog entry, I don't have much to say, other than that I did do my writing for the day, and I dug deep. Maybe too deep.

 While the Slice of Life Challenge for the month of March is over, I intend to continue to write in this blog.  I've started exploring other venues: Such as taking a creative writing course online, coupled with meditation and a compassion cultivation training workshop, I will continue with memoir and biographical writing. If there is one thing that I am getting from this experience it is that writing MUST be a daily practice. As part of the creative writing workshop I'm enrolled in, we were told to obtain a journal that we actually write in each day, yes, as in with a pen on paper! Here was the first assignment, the assignment for today: Write a one-page autobiography of your life. Why only one page? Because setting a page limit will help you stay focused and encourage you to be clear and concise. And if you're thinking you can't possibly fill a whole page? Try it--I bet you can! I found this assignment to be fascinating. Writing about my life on one page was challengin