Getting back to writing here after a week!
2 things I noticed:
1st: I can only think of Margaret Atwood saying that, although she would love to sit and write non-stop, she is prepared to be interrupted. Yes, the author who has inspired a series, who has won literary prizes — she is too interrupted by the mundanest of chores such as making lunch.
2nd: I may not want to share everything about my life — how are we keeping this public, this daily writing, if most of what I’ve done is private, personal?
Also, keeping up with a habit, compounding on a project, is really a getting-back-at-it, a sticking-to-it attitude! I love that writing here daily, even when it isn’t daily, and knitting daily, even when it isn’t always daily, has me rerouting my boat toward what I’ve set out to do, even if sometimes sailing sideways is part of the way. Makes me consider reading Tamara Klink. I remember my parents had a book around the house about Amyr Klink and my friend said “look, a book about that Klink artist you like!,” getting confused with Gustav Klimt. Now a new generation of Klinks is around. But I’m really not reading that now. I am reading the 200 fables and stories the Grimm brothers gathered. Because it’s about transmission, oral transmission, generations, there is something warm about that, and all those things that are also part of what inspires my work. And because as I read I am also listening to a version in German. So I am learning German, listening to another language — that which really entertains me! — and getting lost and found in those forests.
Anyway!
About direction. Creative Direction. Point of View. I got to thinking about it.
Part of my point of view is the tension I just mentioned: intimate and public. I love a diary. I love a stage. Just today I was thinking — How much I love the bright white lights as I speak out! How much I love the feeling of the sound of my feathery stomping on the wooden floors! How can I read my diary on a stage?
