The "Do" List

The thing about starting something new is that it isn't in your memory's list of "Must Dos." It isn't even on the longer and usually perrenially lagging "To Dos" list.

Blogging. Blogging? Blogging!?!?! Where does that fit?

It comes to mind three days after arriving in writing nirvana.

Every writer has a dream of a place where things that aren't creative disappear. There are no Must Dos, To Dos, Should Dos, or even Could Dos. There's only the writer, the instrument of choice to record impressions and thoughts, and field days full of nothing but "To Do Whatever I want."

I'm at the Writers Colony at Diary Hollow in Eureka Spings, AR. I've just had dinner, prepared on site, with a PhD sociology professor, a screen writer with her first film in the can, and a MIT grad who's writing her first novel. How's that for stimulating company?

What does a writer really need to write? Time, space, freedom from the "DO" list. Where, for a short while the only voice in one's head is one's own.

Oh, and then comes floating up from the depths the memory that, I should, could, might, ought to Blog.

Consider it checked off my list for today.

A New Lu

I'm fifty years old, recently divorced.
Now I'm about to be an unwed mother.
And you thought you had issues...

"Knocked-up but not out"