Maudlin Writing.
I spent the day writing yesterday. I don't know if it is any good I haven't reread anything yet. I am fairly sure that it is writing vomit. But I had a good time, and managed to get a few story idea outlines.
Perhaps for a "job" after the kids leave I can write and bring in a few dollars. I don't consider myself a writer, my friend Margaret is the writer in my group. But I do enjoy it, and hate it at the same time. And it helps me get something creative done.
After so many years hanging around the theater community I really miss doing something creative, and this does help.
You know I do feel people have the lives they picked. A lot of days I know I picked wrong too many times. From David, then my collage major...Thanks to David I missed so much time with Bill. My eye sight turned to mush so I can't work in film.
I even went to collage so I wouldn't not being doing what I'm doing now. Staying home with kids. Now I'm 50 most of my life behind me, and the kids just a few years from leaving home.
There are days I feel like such a waste of space.
I know I'm not, but it's hard not to go there. I really don't have a way of people knowing I was hear. Kids that will be a burden on society until they die. Half siblings who barely know me. And the background of a unloving mother doesn't help.
So perhaps if I keep writing, someday there will be a cure for autism, and Glen and Rachel might know their mother adored them. Or I won't fade into absurdity like some many others before me.
When all is said and done it's okay if I do, but I am going kicking and screaming.
Enough of that crap, I'm off to finish the laundry. Wheeeee......
Perhaps for a "job" after the kids leave I can write and bring in a few dollars. I don't consider myself a writer, my friend Margaret is the writer in my group. But I do enjoy it, and hate it at the same time. And it helps me get something creative done.
After so many years hanging around the theater community I really miss doing something creative, and this does help.
You know I do feel people have the lives they picked. A lot of days I know I picked wrong too many times. From David, then my collage major...Thanks to David I missed so much time with Bill. My eye sight turned to mush so I can't work in film.
I even went to collage so I wouldn't not being doing what I'm doing now. Staying home with kids. Now I'm 50 most of my life behind me, and the kids just a few years from leaving home.
There are days I feel like such a waste of space.
I know I'm not, but it's hard not to go there. I really don't have a way of people knowing I was hear. Kids that will be a burden on society until they die. Half siblings who barely know me. And the background of a unloving mother doesn't help.
So perhaps if I keep writing, someday there will be a cure for autism, and Glen and Rachel might know their mother adored them. Or I won't fade into absurdity like some many others before me.
When all is said and done it's okay if I do, but I am going kicking and screaming.
Enough of that crap, I'm off to finish the laundry. Wheeeee......
YOU are a great writer!
ReplyDeleteYOU are a great writer!
ReplyDeleteI agree, this was maudlin. I think you can do better.
ReplyDeleteYou know some day you just have to wallow....
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