A wave of weary regret washes over me every time I think about the website I left behind. WriterInside.com has been around for almost four years now, but I have taken so little care of it lately that it has become stale and malnourished. Unfortunately, my own writing has suffered the same fate. In the midst of life, family, and career, I have let the writer inside me slip into a hole, where he’s been hibernating for close to a year.
Maybe it’s not quite accurate to say he’s been hibernating. Perhaps it would be closer to the truth to say that I kicked him into a well, and he’s been screaming, clawing, and scratching to get out ever since.
Well, this past week, I finally lowered the bucket and helped my inner writer back to the surface. Deep in the darkest corner of the Texas Tech library, I shut myself up in a tiny study carrel, dusted off the old manuscript, reacquainted myself with my characters, and began laying down some words again. My story had been frozen in place for so long that it felt a little awkward moving on to the next scene. The new words didn’t seem to blend with the old, and it took me a while to find my rhythm again. But now that I’ve finally gotten these old, rusty gears a-crankin’ again, I’m beginning to fall in love all over again!
Bavi
on Oct 16th, 2011
@ 10:42 pm:
Hello,
How are you? I go to college, and we had a visit from Mark Salzman, a great personality! He is so funny, and his writings are very creative. Anyhow, I believe he mentioned this website. He had said insidewriter.com, but I stumbled upon this one… I am assuming he had a little mixup. I am writer, nothing compared to Mark Salzman. But maybe one day! I have lots to learn, so I would like to join this website and hopefully I will unleash my talents and discover something I didn’t even know I had. Looking forward to learning a lot from here.
Thanks!