"It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over her fellows: he or she catches the changes of her mind on the hop. "
-Vita Sackville-West
When I decided to come to Korea, some of my friends thought it was to make a few extr
a dollars as a college professor, become a English teacher to an extraordinary student, to lose some weight and regain my health. The real truth was that I stopped working at a 40 hour, five days a week grind to finally put in a full time writing dream. From March 2002 to March 2010, I found a million reasons not to do it.
I bought a new television to take advantage of the change over from regular broadcasting to digital, I found a terrific second-hand bookstore and bought all of the new books that I have been wanting to read and proceeded to do just that. I saw my grandchildren often and took them to places they wanted to go and went on adventures with them. I went to England. I had to have major surgery. I did not lose the weight I was going to lose. I did not take the art classes I always meant to take because they were no longer being offered. I bought the books instead but they gathered dust. I let the moments go, ungathered and the opportunities to write unwritten. Soon I would wake in the morning and see the days evaporate off the calendar.
I wrote in my journal and asked my spiritual guardians for help. Well, help did come. I n
o longer have a television set, nor do I have a second-hand bookstore to buy books and just read after I slept in. I don't have a car to drive around to the different stores. I have to walk everywhere and if I am lucky take the bus. Be careful what you wish or ask for. You could get it. I certainly did.
Now, my greatest joy is to wake up on a day in which I can do some writing before I go to class. I am on a semester break. I can't watch television for I don't have a set. I have a few books in English and I am reading them slowly. I can't order them for they are expensive. I have to work on getting my Sony Reader to work. I wiped out the memory accidently. It is during the monsoon weather cycle so rain is a common occurance so staying at home is something I can do.
As for the
writer's block that I had so much trouble with? Well, I don't really have a writer's block anymore. Today I have to go to the store because I need a few things. They could wait, but I need to do some walking. I am going to use the bus to go to the store. It is an excuse to do that. It is not raining at the moment and I want to stretch my legs.
When I do some writing, it slows things down and I don't feel as if I wasted the day. I know I can watch some movies on the Internet although not many as even Netflex does not work here in Korea. I am glad it doesn't. I don't worry about yesterday and I am certainly not going to worry about tomorrow. What I am going to do is enjoy the opportunity life has given me and write because that is what I really want to do.
-Vita Sackville-West
When I decided to come to Korea, some of my friends thought it was to make a few extr
a dollars as a college professor, become a English teacher to an extraordinary student, to lose some weight and regain my health. The real truth was that I stopped working at a 40 hour, five days a week grind to finally put in a full time writing dream. From March 2002 to March 2010, I found a million reasons not to do it.
I bought a new television to take advantage of the change over from regular broadcasting to digital, I found a terrific second-hand bookstore and bought all of the new books that I have been wanting to read and proceeded to do just that. I saw my grandchildren often and took them to places they wanted to go and went on adventures with them. I went to England. I had to have major surgery. I did not lose the weight I was going to lose. I did not take the art classes I always meant to take because they were no longer being offered. I bought the books instead but they gathered dust. I let the moments go, ungathered and the opportunities to write unwritten. Soon I would wake in the morning and see the days evaporate off the calendar.
I wrote in my journal and asked my spiritual guardians for help. Well, help did come. I n
o longer have a television set, nor do I have a second-hand bookstore to buy books and just read after I slept in. I don't have a car to drive around to the different stores. I have to walk everywhere and if I am lucky take the bus. Be careful what you wish or ask for. You could get it. I certainly did.Now, my greatest joy is to wake up on a day in which I can do some writing before I go to class. I am on a semester break. I can't watch television for I don't have a set. I have a few books in English and I am reading them slowly. I can't order them for they are expensive. I have to work on getting my Sony Reader to work. I wiped out the memory accidently. It is during the monsoon weather cycle so rain is a common occurance so staying at home is something I can do.
As for the
writer's block that I had so much trouble with? Well, I don't really have a writer's block anymore. Today I have to go to the store because I need a few things. They could wait, but I need to do some walking. I am going to use the bus to go to the store. It is an excuse to do that. It is not raining at the moment and I want to stretch my legs.When I do some writing, it slows things down and I don't feel as if I wasted the day. I know I can watch some movies on the Internet although not many as even Netflex does not work here in Korea. I am glad it doesn't. I don't worry about yesterday and I am certainly not going to worry about tomorrow. What I am going to do is enjoy the opportunity life has given me and write because that is what I really want to do.
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