THIS Rhett Butler Will Never Die

I have found new blood! It’s amazing to me, sometimes at least – see, if I said it was amazing all the time it would be trite (or would it be tripe) but moments of realization are equally as powerful as moments of ennui are debilitating. As an example I’ll share a story comparing yesterday’s “writers mind” to the “writers mind” I am experiencing today. I sat for a very long time yesterday (well it was long to me, longer than I think I have experienced this syndrome at least in my modern writing life -=twenty minutes=-) staring at my cursor that blinked on a blank WORD screen. Over the past six days the ideas of my novel have expanded into a much larger piece than I had been working with prior. I created a new outline and yesterday sat down to begin writing the first chapter. In those moments I realized one of the truest moments of my entire writing experience; I realized that writing is hard . And I suddenly felt like I could not write . That I did no...

Journal entry – My own 7.5.2005 My DarylDellamorte Bravejourna l has been gone for about ten days now. Inadvertently deleted from the internet I began to somewhat regret my snap decision, accidental as I reasoned the event to be. Since that date I have started to peruse blogs outside of the spectrum of Bravejournal and have found elements of structure that I deem admirable. For a Bravejournal , DD was a formidable presentation. And proudly I can state that I was never elected (or selected, or self-nominated) for the revered by many, Journal of the Week award. I am proud in a negative sense. I want acclaim from not being acclaimed. So two online friends (I do not use that term lightly) have made personal pleas for me to reconsider, well, writing for them . I created a new blog through a different host recently, incognito with an entirely different written voice. Not only would old readers not know the site was mine from lack of personal identification, ...