Riders on the Storm
Jul. 18th, 2018 08:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
messygorgeousWhen I got the email that there would soon be another season of Idol I felt...a little anxious honestly.
By the end of last season I was exhausted. All written out. Ready for a break. It was the longest stretch of consistent writing I've done since college and there at the end, finding the energy to write each week when the real world was coming at me like a freight train was proving challenging.
I think that is part of the Idol fever though, shoring up your stamina, pushing through the times when the words escape you and not getting bogged down. (I suddenly got an image of Artax in the swamps of Sadness in my head. A different kind of bog I suppose, ha!)
Anyway, I was really ready for a break when our last season ended. I'm ashamed to say I didn't even realize that our last post was THE last post and final vote until after I'd put it up - I thought there was one week left!
Idol is always eye opening for me though. I learn a little more about myself, meet some amazing writers and people and enjoy a bit of verbal yoga. I've always loved bending words to my will!
I have been in literary stasis, reading much more than writing, when I saw the email from Gary.
The past 8 months have been crazy - more on that in another post. Primarily as therapy, and knowing LJ was dying, I did try to start blogging elsewhere in March and quickly discovered I was too busy and worn out to write about everything going on -even for my sanity.
Much like the abandoned diaries of my youth, out in the ether there now floats a lovely blog with a photo of a half built house and two whole entries about me. I'll probably never touch it again. Such a waste of a URL!
So now I'm here, recharged and ready for more topics to explore, more challenges. I've always loved Idol, for so many reasons and I'm glad to see it resurrected here.
Then again, I've always been a bit of a masochist too.
By the end of last season I was exhausted. All written out. Ready for a break. It was the longest stretch of consistent writing I've done since college and there at the end, finding the energy to write each week when the real world was coming at me like a freight train was proving challenging.
I think that is part of the Idol fever though, shoring up your stamina, pushing through the times when the words escape you and not getting bogged down. (I suddenly got an image of Artax in the swamps of Sadness in my head. A different kind of bog I suppose, ha!)
Anyway, I was really ready for a break when our last season ended. I'm ashamed to say I didn't even realize that our last post was THE last post and final vote until after I'd put it up - I thought there was one week left!
Idol is always eye opening for me though. I learn a little more about myself, meet some amazing writers and people and enjoy a bit of verbal yoga. I've always loved bending words to my will!
I have been in literary stasis, reading much more than writing, when I saw the email from Gary.
The past 8 months have been crazy - more on that in another post. Primarily as therapy, and knowing LJ was dying, I did try to start blogging elsewhere in March and quickly discovered I was too busy and worn out to write about everything going on -even for my sanity.
Much like the abandoned diaries of my youth, out in the ether there now floats a lovely blog with a photo of a half built house and two whole entries about me. I'll probably never touch it again. Such a waste of a URL!
So now I'm here, recharged and ready for more topics to explore, more challenges. I've always loved Idol, for so many reasons and I'm glad to see it resurrected here.
Then again, I've always been a bit of a masochist too.
