I am very tempted to get lazy and post something one of the many writings lying idle and gathering dust on my hard-drive. This started out as live up-dating and no matter how rubbishy my writing becomes here, I will not succumb. So I have decided to use this place to assist me in my adventure in the creative writing course I have signed up to. (Notice I have used the personal four times in the last sentence). For some reason my use of 'I' and 'me' makes me uncomfortable. I have no clue why...no matter.
Moving on....
For many years I have been told : "Write!" by varying personages. Encouragement in a way and to be appreciated by all accounts. But...being stubborn by nature, and having an avid dislike of being told what to do, I have been stomping my metaphorical foot and saying : "No!" ..but doing it anyway, tee hee.
Trouble is, there is an eclectic variety of subjects I want to explore. Sci-fi, social unrest, music, psychology, life's experiences, the list goes on and on. But which to choose. That is where the value of the structured college environment enters stage right. Give me a sentence and I will expand. That is the hope. Already i have started something in response to an email prompt. As I walked about the house performing domestic duties, the ideas began plundering in. The end result will be nothing in comparison to what my imaginings churned out. I felt I had to cull it down to something 'presentable'. And now it is becoming only a quarter of what it could have been.
Oh and I have been teaching myself latin, because I wanted to do something utterly useless.
Puella casam laudat!
Zdravei (hello)!
ReplyDeleteI picked up bits and pieces of Latin many years ago when I was "coerced" (the best word to describe this) into weekly attendance at Mass. Back in the early (1960's) the Mass was still said in Latin. The one phrase I remember most was "Dominus Vobiscum" and the response "Et cum spiritu tuo"
Of course now I'm past the point of taking up dead languages and am teaching myself Bulgarian instead. This is a language I can actually use should I be fortunate enough to make a trip there in this lifetime :)
Nothing learned ever goes to waste, I've found, so keep on learning!
Just keep on truckin'! It makes time's river flow more swiftly. And that's a good thing.
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