Saturday, November 1, 2008

The Starting Line

OK, all the pieces are in place. I've cracked open the great starter kit "No Plot, No Problem!", read the instructions, joined the website, created the writing space, set up the blog. Let's see, what else can I do to procrastinate?

So much resonance between this and my other project: the Rocket Ship workshops. There's the excitement of beginning, the lessons that will be learned, and then the hard process of actually seeing it through. A skill, a capacity, that needs cultivation. I love the tenor of the starter kit (funny, compassionate) and think we could use some of that in the Rocket Ship in particular and the world in general. Functioning in chaos, walking on the high log of a ropes course, moving through the unknown . . . we have it in us.

OK, I'm wasting words here when I need them in my novel. 

Wish me luck!