Lightbulb!

Every time I set out to write a new blog, I find myself wondering why I never have any new material.  I think I've been reworking the same old stuff over and over for weeks now, maybe months.  I know I have a good excuse, since I'm getting ready to graduate and getting ready to pursue further study in Ireland this summer and have about hundred jillion books about Ireland to read and about a thousand jillion more books to read that were written by Irish authors in Irish settings.  I suppose it would help if I actually wrote something in my journal now and then, instead of digging up rejects from the corners of my computer's basement and reworking them.  Oh, the challenge of breathing some semblance of life back into dead scrolls.  I may love the rewrite, but it keeps me from producing anything new.  And today, on the brink of graduation, with spring going nuts outside my window, blossoming here, bursting out there, I'm all about new.  Maybe this is the reason my "Memoir Writing" instructor required three pages in our journal for every day of the term last fall.  He was trying to cultivate healthy writing habits, yes?  Oh.  I get it.

Have a terrific weekend and may you discover something fresh and new while you're having it!

From Louise