Again, with the power prompt today there was too much material. Here is the current recipe:
- Write what happened. This can be brief.
- Write why it happened, if it needs motivating.
- Write about what I think it means, if that is something that I spent time thinking about.
- If necessary, write about the context. That might have something to do with the above.
It turns out that a lot happens on an ordinary Monday. I don’t think that I am being too detail oriented either. I guess I need to be more efficient with my words? I suspect that as a writer this is a good problem to have, so I’ll keep working that particular problem. I’d like to get through the whole day; there are things that are worth writing about in the later part of the day too.
Here are a couple of things to try tomorrow:
- Write the shortest possible recounting. Just the events. These are like the notes of the day, from memory.
- Pick the things that seem worth diving deeper into first, and write about those. Trouble is that it’s not always obvious what I’m going to get when I start unwrapping some thing that happened.
- Make those notes of the sequence while it’s happening? Just the briefest possible notes.
- Go in reverse order. Might be weird to do. Might be worth it anyway.
I’ll also finally get around to reading the next chapter in Writing Life Stories sometime soon.
↝ morrow
