English: Illustration to Jules Verne’s short story The Mutineers of the Bounty (Les Révoltés de la Bounty), 1879 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Doris McCraw
I used to write a short story a month that I placed on my http://angelarainesshorts.blogspot.com. That was a former writing practice that I let lapse after the death of my mother in February of 2011. She had collected and printed all the stories, and that meant a great deal to me.
The next year 2012 I replaced the writing practice with my Monday through Friday haiku and photo on the http://fivesevenfivepage.blogpspot.com. Now as the year is coming to an end I am faced with the question of whether to continue this practice for 2013 or change directions again.
Regardless of what I decide, I know it will be the right thing for me. I have found that with interruptions that come into my life, when I relax and let my creativity flow I can make my decisions and change directions without feeling like I am a failure. Perhaps that is the biggest fear for a writer, if you find that you need to make that decision to change you are a failure. To me nothing could be further from the truth. Change helps you grow, and you can always revisit what you started at a later time.
So for each of you I wish you Happy Interruptions, Fun Creativity and a Wonderful Winter of Great Writing.
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