Showing posts with label yoga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yoga. Show all posts
Monday, October 24, 2011
A Shiny Little Glimmer of Hope
I probably mentioned this at one time or another, but I do have a poem coming out in just a couple of weeks. My poem is featured in The Poetry of Yoga anthology (volume 1). It's exciting to have something published! I hope all of you will check it out when it goes on sale 11.11.11.Go to thepoetryofyoga.com for more information. Check it out and let me know what you think!
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
A writer's curse?
Script Frenzy progress: 11 pages. All rewritten from before, but it's a start. A pretty good one, considering I only need 3.33 pages a day to meet the goal.
Other than that, things are getting a little crazy. It’s all in my head. I’ll probably sound like a nut, but judge me if you will. Sometimes I get a little carried away with great stories. So much so that I become obsessed with a person, place thing – you name it. I always thought of it as just a writer’s curse – my brain is in overdrive sometimes. But often the fixation becomes so strong that it’s no longer just about the story. It’s more about me. And that’s where the trouble really starts.
If I get carried away with an idea, I want to learn everything about it. Still, it probably doesn’t seem like this is all a bad thing. I’m constantly learning, right? But what starts out as a fun escape from reality usually turns into heartbreak. I usually find something terribly wrong with the person, place, or thing. Then I just get so depressed… and I’m tired of doing this.
All of this imagination in overdrive stuff started when I was a kid, but over the last few months it has progressively gotten worse. It’s just such an emotional roller coaster, I don’t know why I let myself do this. Take this last little blip on the ride. I had a great storyline and it was working well as a story… that’s it. But I got carried away, and now I’m disappointed again. I got rid of it last night... it went straight from the USB key to the recycling bin. If this had been in a different time, I would have just taken it out back and burned it with a match. I guess a virtual burning is good enough. But my mind can't let go of it just yet. This idea wants to stick around.
See? I told you it sounds like I'm a nut.
And to just forget all about this, I tried this afternoon to get back to what's important: yoga, meditation, and a sense of peace. Needless to say, it didn't quite work. The biggest setback was something as simple and stupid as drinking Mountain Dew before my practice. It made it much more difficult to slow my heart rate with all the caffeine coursing through my blood.
And so I continue to suffer from the writer’s curse.
Other than that, things are getting a little crazy. It’s all in my head. I’ll probably sound like a nut, but judge me if you will. Sometimes I get a little carried away with great stories. So much so that I become obsessed with a person, place thing – you name it. I always thought of it as just a writer’s curse – my brain is in overdrive sometimes. But often the fixation becomes so strong that it’s no longer just about the story. It’s more about me. And that’s where the trouble really starts.
If I get carried away with an idea, I want to learn everything about it. Still, it probably doesn’t seem like this is all a bad thing. I’m constantly learning, right? But what starts out as a fun escape from reality usually turns into heartbreak. I usually find something terribly wrong with the person, place, or thing. Then I just get so depressed… and I’m tired of doing this.
All of this imagination in overdrive stuff started when I was a kid, but over the last few months it has progressively gotten worse. It’s just such an emotional roller coaster, I don’t know why I let myself do this. Take this last little blip on the ride. I had a great storyline and it was working well as a story… that’s it. But I got carried away, and now I’m disappointed again. I got rid of it last night... it went straight from the USB key to the recycling bin. If this had been in a different time, I would have just taken it out back and burned it with a match. I guess a virtual burning is good enough. But my mind can't let go of it just yet. This idea wants to stick around.
See? I told you it sounds like I'm a nut.
And to just forget all about this, I tried this afternoon to get back to what's important: yoga, meditation, and a sense of peace. Needless to say, it didn't quite work. The biggest setback was something as simple and stupid as drinking Mountain Dew before my practice. It made it much more difficult to slow my heart rate with all the caffeine coursing through my blood.
And so I continue to suffer from the writer’s curse.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
I just completely rearranged my room in 45 minutes. Pretty good, considering I moved a really heavy dresser, still full of clothes, all by myself. I had to do this so that I wouldn't go nuts about the neighbor's television anymore. I'm sorry, but who waits until 1:30 in the morning to turn the TV on, watch infomercials, then wait until 3am to shut it off. Doesn' that person ever sleep? And a few days ago, along with that schedule, they woke up and turned the TV on again at 7am. They need to go to a sleep clinic and I need to de-stress. Once I finish all my articles today, I'm just going to zen out, meditate, maybe a few yoga streches. And food. Lots of comfort food. Where's that chocolate bar? Oh yeah. Gotta go. *runs to the chocolate*
Aside from that, I've talked a friend into traveling with me to Chicago within a few weeks so that I could check out neighborhoods I want to live in. It's going to be rough, but I think I'll be able to manage getting moved to Chicago by late June or early July. Then I'll be poor. Again.
Aside from that, I've talked a friend into traveling with me to Chicago within a few weeks so that I could check out neighborhoods I want to live in. It's going to be rough, but I think I'll be able to manage getting moved to Chicago by late June or early July. Then I'll be poor. Again.
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