Be Back To Work

Vacation time is over and it's time to get back on a schedule and get back to work. Except for one thing. I may not have as much work as I thought I was going to. One of my regular contracts is currently pending funding, so two days a week might be on hold for a little while. Luckily, I accepted a second contract (against my better judgment, before I knew my judgment was flawed), which will offer me two days a week of paid employment. Now I have exactly what I was complaining so heavily about not having for the past 3 months.

Ample time to write.

Hooray!

What do I do now?

Sometimes insight falls in your lap just when you need it the most, today in the form of this blog entry posted on the Facebook page of one active writer I know. It's about knowing your process. One small problem. I'm so new to writing, I have no process. I don't even know where to begin to find one.

My main skill seems to be riffing off what's around me, which works beautifully when I'm sitting at a show at Montreal Fashion Week, laughing my ass off with J and C over the crazy outfits coming down the runway, or touring fancy hotels with C, or debating the merits of one event versus another with D. Give me an assignment, a product, or even a kernel of an idea and I'm off to the races. But sit me down in front of a keyboard with nothing but an empty page in front of me and a TV full of two back-to-back episodes of Glee (or, forgive me, Jersey Shore, because I invented the freakin' poof) and my choice is easy. Hellloooo Couchy, my old friend!

I was chatting with a friend, today, who is looking to push forward in her business. I suggested she jump into social media, with a blog. Her business is fascinating. It's the kind of thing that everyone finds interesting, but not many people know much about. And she's got the kind of personality that could really pull in a following...a sharp wit surrounding a warm core. It's all about connecting with an audience, I advised. She worried that connecting would be the hardest part. I told her to just start writing and figure it out later.

You can't wait for that perfect inspiration. It's not coming.

Time to take my own advice.

So, now I have time. Back to it. Blogging as often as possible, whether the inspiration is near-perfect or far-from-it. This is all about practice for me, and practice makes...

Practice makes process.

Be Back to Work.