Archive for 2010
This is from our performance at The Forum at the Crossing, a retirement community in Indianapolis.
It’s not been deliberate, but it seems that I’ve taken a hiatus from writing. I suppose there are a variety of reasons, but I think it really comes down to one thing: I think I’m burned out. I’ve been writing almost non-stop–working on one project or another, be it a new story or revision–since November of 2006. This is why I’m certainly not cut out for a writing life where I’m expected to produce constantly, with deadlines looming and finished drafts expected. I think I’m finally simply coming to terms with that. I love to write. Imagined characters have been my constant companions for most of my life. And they are now, too. They’re just not doing anything worth writing about. They’re simply up there, living their lives happily, and there’s nothing for me to do with them. So I let them be. And the strangest thing is, I don’t feel really guilty about it. I suppose I feel more guilty about that fact–that I don’t feel guilty about not writing. Instead I’m playing, practicing, taking pictures, starting to train for a half-marathon, in short, doing other things. I wonder if I’ll even do any work on anything before November. I suppose eventually one of these sets of characters will start to grab me and demand my attention. I think before too long I’ll start to really miss it. But right now, I don’t, really. And yet I also don’t feel as if I’ve lost my muse. I think she just needs a break.
