All Good Things… Time To Do The Write Thing... · 4:19pm Jun 27th, 2020
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27th June 2020
Hello Chaps and Chapettes,
It’s about time.
I started doing these blogs when I was realising that I was struggling to find the motivation to write. I was putting off projects that I needed to complete or at least struggling to decide what I wanted to do with them. Now I’m at the precipice of the journey where I know where I want to go next, what I want to do, and how I’m going to do it. I’ve discovered that through these blogs. Unfortunately, something still stands in my way and that is… These blogs.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not going to stop writing to you, dear reader. I’ve really enjoyed writing to you and equally you writing back to me, teaching me things, encouraging me, and I thank you from the whole of my heart for that. I will not take likely all you have done to get me to this point, whether it is just viewing what I wrote, telling me what you thought, or giving me hints and tips. However, I must start a new journey otherwise I will get lost in this one.
You see while doing this has been brilliant at getting me motivated to write, helping me practice my touch typing skills, increasing the speed of my writing, and learning that I CAN BLOODY DO IT! It has also made me a bit complacent. I spoke earlier about how, even doing one thing can still be a win during your day, but there is also a danger to that. If you want to succeed, small wins can lead to a big win, yet you need to ensure that you are focused on the next step up too.
Let me put this forward, you do not have to step up. Doing little wins every day such as ensuring you pay that bill, or write one little thing, or go to work, or eat, or sleep, or put the garbage out, will keep you on a straight line. You can go in a straight line as long as that is what makes you happy. You’re still living, laughing, having fun and that’s great, there is nothing wrong with it. However, if you want to go up, then going in a straight line will not get you there. You have to make a sacrifice and try taking the stairs instead.
Don’t get me wrong, that sacrifice could feel like a mistake. Life is like a big game of snakes and ladders, you could be climbing one day and from no fault of your own, you’re sliding down the next day. Yet, even if you end up at square zero, the starting block of the board, there is STILL A LADDER IN FRONT OF YOU! And the best bit is, there are no snakes until you climb up it. So it’s literally free real estate. ;3
This is where I am. I want to move from doing these blogs every day to doing them when I feel I have something important to report. I could be about to climb a ladder or meet a snake and I’m not sure which, but that doesn’t matter. If I don’t do it, I will simply carry ongoing, off of the board, and not meeting anything fun in return.
At this point, I want to share a video with you that inspired me. It is a fan film supported by Disney. It is about what happens if you lead with your head and not your heart. It is the Spanish version BUT there’s no dialogue so you don’t need to worry about understanding it, the animation does a good job of that on its own. (BUT if you did want to find the English version, you can do so on Disney+)
If you have watched that then you’ll find that when “Paul” followed his head over his heart, he discovered that the life he has followed so far has been risk-free, but also lonely, dull, and adventureless. It is only when his head realized that he was going to end up being sad for the remained of his life that he let his heart take over for a bit. To that end, “Paul” had a fantastic time and in the credits on the Disney+ version, you see images of him trying surfing with the surfer dude, sharing time with the old men doing a fun activity (thus changing their lives for the better too) and creating a family with the sunglasses peddler.
The reason I wanted to share that with you is that, at this point in my life, those six minutes had a profound effect on me. They MADE me want to do something else, to create, to try, to risk, and to see what happens next. So that is what I am going to do. Take a risk and even if it doesn’t pay off, I’m going to learn from the experience and try to do it better next time.
In short, please do not worry about me. Do not worry about there being fewer blogs, I will still be writing to you. I’ll schedule them, Ricky Gervais usually does a vlog once at the weekend and once on a Wednesday, I think I can manage to do the same with these vlogs too. So, this isn’t a goodbye to these, it is a see you later.
In the meantime, my thirty-minute challenges will continue with a new purpose. I’ve learned from these that I can write about a thousand words in thirty minutes. “Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone” is nearly seventy-seven thousand words long. That means, if written from cover to cover without editing or drafts, it would take seventy-seven days to write. That would be two months and sixteen days. That, on this time budget, is acceptable!
I’m first going to focus on a project I started called “Luna Switched,” - sorry, Tumblr, FurAffinity, Twitter and Facebook friends, you won’t be able to read that here as it’s very adult, but I will sink a link down below if you want to try. Honestly, if you’re innocent or family, please don’t. :D Thanks.
After that, other things will arise that should be more up your street. There will still be pony stuff for a while because I have ideas I need to see to completion before I can go on to actual publishable novel ideas. If I moved on from them now without finishing them, I would not be very happy with myself and my writing would suffer for it, so please bear with until we are at that point.
Until then, I’ll pop on a blog post every weekend and Wednesday. I’ll share thoughts on what I am doing, listen to your suggestions, and look forward to getting in touch. I hope that you will too.
Until then, this is Scaramouche saying, tatty-bye everyone, tatty-bye :D
Stay safe, stay positive, and always do reach out to me if you need to.
All good things,
Lots of hugs,
Scara x
Link to Luna Switched: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/174616/luna-switched
Link to Discord Server: https://discord.gg/9GEhvhf
