
Writing Prompt: What is your current creative plan?
It’s 4:00 AM and I can’t sleep, again. Mania has a strangling hold on me. I lay in my safe bed, comforted by blankets, smothered in cats, my husband sleeping next to me, but I can’t lay there any longer. My body feels angst.
I go downstairs to the library. I don’t turn on the lights. It’s storming and there’s sparks of light flashing and dancing through the windows mere seconds apart from the sound of deep rumbling. I nestle down into the recliner and admire Mother Nature’s rage and just the same as the storm, if I wait it out, the mania will pass.
I wrote that this morning.
No matter what it is you’re writing about you’re telling a story. Whether it be nonfiction, personal narrative, poetry, fiction, journalism and even the how-to- I’m- better- than -you articles.
The words flow from your mind through your finger tips. Would I stand up in front on a big crowd and tell a story verbally? Yes, of course I would. It’s relatively the same thing. Not even relatively, it is the same thing.
When you’re standing in front of a crowd telling a story you have to be careful not to stumble over your words and be conscious of your body language. These are things that make a great story, and the story itself.
It’s the same with writing. When you’re writing your words must be luring and concise. They need to flow and blend from your writer’s voice. These are things that make a great story, and the story itself.
I’ve read countless books and articles on how to financially sustain as a creative but I just don’t think it’s that easy. I’ve recently launched a Patreon and while I’m nowhere near a point of sustaining I’ve really enjoyed the uniqueness and art of storytelling that I’ve been investing in it. It’s another creative outlet with a dash of social media.
I want to tell stories. I want to create art. I want to sustain. I need to work at it. The action itself may be fun and free spirited but there’s also a reality to it. Storytelling celebrates the power and diversity of humanity and while it feeds my soul but it hardly feeds my body.
I want to be personal and transparent. Being open and sharing my stories doesn’t mean I’m vulnerable. It means I’m confident.
My current creative plans are to continue to work at it, and have fun with it, and write, and tell stories and create art because that’s who I am. It’s what’s calling inside of me.

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