Need Some CREATIVE WRITING in my Life Diet
For a long while now, I have not written long pieces of fiction. Monthly, for over a year, I have written flash fiction through SNAPS 1000 Words, a flash fic site I run with fellow authors Jennifer Coissiere, Makasha Dorsey, and Pachet Burson, but longer works have taken a back seat as I work, slowly but surely, on my dissertation.
I have come to realize -- and I use the word realize knowing that there have been at least ten other times I have realized this, but I am now trying to finally do something about the realization -- I have come to realize that when creativity is not a part of what I do, I am uninspired, dead in regards to every other thing I do in my life.
I need balance. Creative writing is one of the few things I truly believed that I am called to do with this life, and if I don't do it, I'm doing a disservice to God and to myself... and to those who might receive something from having read my works.
Will start working on adding that balance back to my life. A creative Shonell is the best Shonell there is.
