WordCrafter09: 2013

A Note About This Blog

This is a blog that (as will be clear to anyone who sees it) I started awhile back under the pen-/user-name of "WordCrafter 09". My original plan was to associate it with an account I set up on HubPages, separate from the account I have there under a pen-name (Lisa H. Warren/Lisa H.W). I had some other plans for the blog too, but I didn't do a lot on it. In any case, I've decided to resurrect it (largely because I'm transitioning away from the old pen-name).

Since deciding to resurrect it and make it "the intersection of two different names"; and since at some point I'll de-emphasize it (just as I'm de-emphasing the pen-name, itself), I thought a good use for this blog might be to post some "raw-material type stuff" for later use, reference, and/or polishing up.

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Update - That Thing I Still Need To Write

I've been going through a bunch of my writing recently (well, I'm ALWAYS going through a bunch of my writing), and I ran into this essentially abandoned blog All this time after writing the post about "that thing I need to write", I still haven't written it. I know what it is, although figuring out how to go about is remains tricky.

That doesn't mean I haven't been writing all kinds of things since I first made this post. It does mean (as it always meant) that I've continued to keep writing around that thing. I'm working on it. It's kind of amazing how long something can "incubate", I guess. Writers probably have different "incubation" processes with their stuff. I know that, for me, the incubation process is over when the material is just about all written and ready for me to "put my brain on print".

In any case, if you've come upon this page (most likely by accident), I apologize for the fact that you haven't found much of anything on here. I can't guarantee that the incubation process can be made to go any faster, but I've decided to start tending to this site a little bit more - even if that just means a little bit more "writing around" that thing I really need to write.

A Note From Awhile Back - That's Still Pretty Much Applies

When I had trouble finding full-time work after a complicated divorce, and in an economy that was about as bad it could get, I thought that the bright side to that otherwise dreary scenario was that working from home meant not being involved in the "rat race". That was true enough; and although there are things about the rat race that I've always kind of liked, there are a lot of things that are great about not having to be involved in it on a daily basis.

It's been years, now, since I've been away from the rat race. I've discovered something, though. It turns out that working from home (and especially if any of that work involves being online very much) can be its own kind of rat race.

The difference between the outside rat race and the more hidden kind that can seem to seep into the cozy environment of a home office (and, believe me, it isn't an "office" as much as it is a desk) (besides the commuter traffic factor) is that the rat race involved in working from home can be disguised as "not a rat race" but can still feel like one.

In any case (and ironically, I suppose, in view of the fact that blogs are online activities), this blog is my attempt to get away from all forms of rat races - and just write what I feel like writing.