What Does It Take To Get You Seated And Writing?

I have 4 (count em, 4) blogs. It was a plan way back to actually write in them on a rather consistent basis.

Well, here it is March already and I haven’t really kept up with any of them. Even simple posts like “Hey there, how is your day going?” have not been written in that time either. I love the blog idea as being something simple to just write and not worry too much about. Meaning keep it simple, short, partially informational and maybe even useful for those who drop on by.

So here’s to once again getting back into the groove of writing in at least one of the blogs much more consistently than once every other month. Tune in next time for something even more entertaining.

David
The Unmotivated Motivational Writer

The Never Ending Question Which Fits Everywhere, Even For Writers

It’s a popular open-ended question which has helped change the world, make the seemingly impossible, possible. It has helped bring the unmotivated into leaders. It has helped creative people who may have been blocked for lengthy periods of time, come back with fresh views, ideas, aspirations and more creative ways of doing what they do.

What if… is the starting point to countless questions in any given area. And it works for writers as well. For me, and for this list, it’s about getting ideas and sitting one’s tail in a chair to actually write again.

What if…

1. …I got up 30 minutes earlier?
2. …I would exercise for just 10 simple minutes a day?
3. …I bring the tools of my trade with me everywhere I go?
4. …I would edit those pieces I wrote 4 years ago and sent them out?
5. …I sold something I wrote?
6. …I could sit myself down and actually write every day?
7. …My teachers were write when they said I wrote well?
8. …My teachers were wrong then they said my writing sucked?
9. …I could make writing more a part of my job duties?
10. …I go to the park, bring a voice recorder, talk about what I see, feel, smell and hear?
11. …while I am still at the park, I recorded my thoughts about what I wanted to write?
12. …I recorded ideas I had for possible greeting cards, bumper stickers, buttons and the like which I could send off to some places, or even design myself for Cafe Press?
13. …I just sat and recorded ideas I had for different books, booklets, articles, chapters, plays, videos, blogs and poems?
14. …I would just write instead of wondering What If…?

What are your What if… questions you have asked yourself over the years?

David
The Unmotivated Motivational Writer

An Additional Addition to the Web

I know what you are thinking.

Hey David, why are you adding something else to this web thing? I was hoping I could at some point make it all the way to the end of it. But now you go and add another lens for me to check out at Squidoo.

Yup, I did. Actually, this is the 2nd one I have put out there. The first one isn’t or wasn’t what I had really wanted to do. But this one is more for the writer in you. It will connect you with other writer information, inspire you to be less unmotivated (some might say more motivated, but that doesn’t work for me as well).

Check it out here and let me know what you think.

David
The Unmotivated Motivational Writer

What To Write

During the past few days, I took to roaming around the web. By roaming, I mean visiting the usual sites I normally visit. I noticed many had not been updated in a week or so. Holidays will do that to you I suppose.

Then I came across a co-worker’s blog which, though not updated daily, it was a lot more recent than others I had seen. Josh’s blog is about life, reaction, happenings and successes and what is being learned.

He had written about Amazon shipping (or not shipping) a gift he bought, police cars keeping him from his house, the proper way of heating up oatmeal and bananas and a host of other things.

I started wondering how he found so much to write about.

The obvious part is, he is writing about what happens to him, his reactions to it, and shares his thoughts with anyone who will stop by and read.

So maybe that is what is needed to get things moving even further along than they are. Find something simple which happens during the day, write about it, twist it, write a poem about it, create a greeting card from it, write a short play or monologue or the like.

See what happens, let the words flow and see what your thoughts are in the process.

Run for The Roses

When Dan Fogelberg passed away this past Saturday, one song of his came to mind more than any other. It sums us pretty much what living life is about.

To take a single moment and go for it. To make the most from it. To enjoy it, live it and give it everything you’ve got. We must “Run For The Roses.”

And it’s run for the roses as fast as you can
Your fate is delivered, your moment’s at hand
It’s the chance of a lifetime in a lifetime of chance
And it’s high time you joined in the dance
God bless you Dan, and thank you. R.I.P.

www.danfogelberg.com

Bizzy Isn’t Quite the Right Word

As 2007 winds it’s way to an end, I am finding myself becoming busier and busier. Ok, it’s my own choice, and it is the right thing to do. As has been stated before, change is a good thing if you have a reason to do it.

In the year ahead, there will be plenty of new things I’ll be involved with. Some of them, I know what they are already. Other projects will come along when it is time for them to be done. I guess that’s how it always is.

In the year ahead, there will be more videos, more ebooks, more organized postings, more articles, more involvement with others and their projects and maybe even more opportunities.

That’s the feeling at the moment. It is more work, but in the end, it shall be more than worth it.

Born Standing Up – Bringing Dedication to One’s Craft

I just finished reading Steve Martin’s “biography” (as he calls it) “Born Standing Up – A Comic’s Life.”

While true, it is about his life, it is more than just a re-telling of things that happened to him. It’s not just of his childhood, his teen years, his early adult life or his career on stage. It’s about the dedication one has to what it is they do. To the need to constantly improve. To the love for what it is they were born to do.

For me, writing has always been a part of what I’ve done. I know I haven’t always taken the time or made the effort to continuously make it my writing better or push myself further than what was needed on a given day. (Well, that’s what Steve’s book has shown me).

So I am now making the commitment to do more, write more, focus more and create more than I have in the past. To do anything less, would just be silly.

Writing – because it matters.   David