Negril Notes

Blogging New Years Resolution

January 1, 2005

Hi Blog Fans,

Or should I say “fan”. One of my New Years resolutions is to blog more often. I write in my journal daily. I find it helpful to keep the voices in my head on paper. I want to mix my blog up. Sometimes drivel and sometimes more serious stories or commentary. Hell I may even try poetry, but I’m not too sure about that part. I dedicate twenty minutes a day to my “practice”. Sometimes I miss a day, but usually go for more than 20. Rarely is there anything worth publishing, hell you can barely read most of it. But I develop ideas and come up with stuff I can use later. It’s an ongoing process.

One of my favorite things is writing on the train. I pick a person or thing and write about it or them, but for just the time we’re on the train. I try to capture the person’s essence, what their thinking, feeling, or about to do. Having only a short time to do it causes me to get right to it. Brevity is the soul of wit. Or so they say.

Why? Well, when I write the “Great American Novel”, or gripping short story, I’ll have some idea of how to describe a thing with some sense of reality.

It’s funny, since I’ve been doing this I find my self more present in day to day situations. Like walking thru a deserted PATH tunnel or sitting in a Starbucks on 16th Street in Chelsea. I feel like the narrator in a 1950’s film noir. . . . as I sit in this dank corner bar trying to figure my options, in walks this dame . . . yada yada

V

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