Getting back to work

Well, the advantage of not having an actual audience is that no one minds if I take a break, even if it’s a long break. The short version is that life has been imperfect. The long version is, well, long, and not really important. It’s time to get back to work.

It may take a few days before this feels natural again. I hate that I lost that feeling, but the only way to get it back is to write every day and post every day and just keep going.

Ha! No it won’t hahahaha.

I just realized that I’m falling victim to a fallacy that I’ve been talking a lot about lately that many writers fall for.

I’m acting like writer’s block is a real thing. I’m acting like there is a muse somewhere who just doesn’t feel motivated to inspire me. The actual reality is that my writing might be a little clumsy for a few days, but that’s probably about it.

And I think that I was thinking similarly about kintsugi and woodwork lately as well. I’ve figured out how to make Japanese style boxes for kintsugi and I look forward to getting good at that. But, like writing, or kintsugi, or any other type of art, the only way that I will get better is by being slightly less bad every day. I have thrown away more writing than I will ever understand. I have thrown away at least a small hill-sized mound of bad kintsugi. I will have quite a few bonfires this summer made of boxes that are almost good looking but not quite.

And that’s completely ok.