Jeanette Said
The Dance
Shuffle, shuffle, step, slide
Pivot, pivot, step, slide
They — the characters – know the dance steps and move smoothly around me on this dark floor. I’m a stranger, striving to follow their movements. Sometimes they slide in quickly, and step back out — one, two, gone — while I’m still trying to engage them. They dance in, say their pieces, and dance away again. Just when I think I’m discerning the rhythm the movements –
Pivot, pivot, step, slide
Another group of dancers have taken the floor, and the music has changed.
Time to dance — sorry, write — like crazy, at least one more time.
The Love/Hate Thing
It’s a love/hate thing for me when I find another’s blog (or, like today, several), start reading their entries, and enjoy them so much that they divert me from my writing mission, and I explore their blog to see what else they offer. It’s at once diverting in several ways but also satisfying and rewarding. Reading stimulates writing. I don’t know if more hours in a day would solve anything, because I think I would just read more and want to write more.
Time to take a deep breath, drag some discipline out from my depths, pin the blogs aside, and write like crazy, at least one more time.
Michael Seidel, writer 