I need to read more literature.
Sure, the technical books I read are full of fancy terms like direct inward dialing and primary rate interface, but they don't inspire much creativity.
My writing is limited to the terse three-sentence emails that I volley back over the cubicle wall on a daily basis. I try to get out of the chair and talk to people. Have a question, get up walk over to the other office and talk about it, etc. Doesn't always happen.
The answer is to walk to the other side of the library where those strange fiction books are. The other half of the equation is to write. Daily.
I'll have to resist my urge for pure information and redirect that energy to the creative written word.
Sure, the technical books I read are full of fancy terms like direct inward dialing and primary rate interface, but they don't inspire much creativity.
My writing is limited to the terse three-sentence emails that I volley back over the cubicle wall on a daily basis. I try to get out of the chair and talk to people. Have a question, get up walk over to the other office and talk about it, etc. Doesn't always happen.
The answer is to walk to the other side of the library where those strange fiction books are. The other half of the equation is to write. Daily.
I'll have to resist my urge for pure information and redirect that energy to the creative written word.
I haven't written much lately, but there are some larger pieces in my journal, some poetry, essays, and short stories that I'm pretty proud of.
The thing about reading is that I have to do it. Reality tends to suffocate me, fiction lets me breathe. I'm the sort that cannot live without legends.
The thing about writing is that I can't not write. There is something that compels me to, and increasingly so.