I wonder what I’m supposed to do with this writing habit of mine. This is the first time that I’ve decided to type it, the previous habits were all hand written. It gave the practice a sense of intimacy, as if I was sharing my deepest thoughts in a way that was completely and utterly me. Typing is all about efficiency, the only determining factor is the “voice” that comes across on the page. I have tried journaling (sharing my thoughts and feelings) each day but eventually (and rather quickly) I became bored of reading and hearing my own thoughts. The most fun I’ve had with my writing habit was daily challenges of sorts. On Monday’s I would analyse a passage from a stoic text, Tuesday’s would result in a poem, Wednesday’s...were always a struggle, Thursday’s were the turn of microfiction, and Friday’s were back to journaling. Perhaps that is what I shall return to. It certainly keeps everything fresh and stretches my imagination and flexes a lot of different writing muscles. But! The promise of something new, something (dare I say) novel. I had briefly flirted with using these precious 15 minutes to write parts of a book but that...no maybe I shall use these 15 minutes to write more and more of a story with the aim to write a story a week. Now there’s a challenge worth doing! How many stories do I have within me? Countless. Yesterday could be the intro to an idea I had about what it would take to make extremist Islam “cool” how would someone use marketing tools to transform the public perception of something so vile and at odds with the majority of today’s individualistic values?  I shall have to come up with some more ideas for stories, short stories. I should be able to write about 500 words per day, with my stories being 2,000 or so words. Perhaps tomorrow I shall come up with more ideas for stories or indeed, use the one outlined in the previous paragraph. I have come to the conclusion that the plot ideas aren’t as important as the execution of the idea. And that often stories evolve as they are written. I would like to write an epic poem about the GME saga as well, in the style of “Horatio at the Gate”  But we shall see. We shall see, and I will perform. I will write. I will tell tales. Maybe they won’t all be horrible...maybe. I shall submit more stories to places. Fill the tank, constantly enter stories for publication more and more and more and more. Creativity builds creativity. You think you’ll run out, but you don’t...you only run out when you try too hard. ** #writing #habits #creativity