Still alive

Wow... It's been so long...

I fear whatever readership I previously had might be gone now but if any of you are still out there, I'm still alive... and I'm back! :)

It has been so long since my last post. So long that my computer was not automatically signed in to my blog anymore.

So long, in fact, that my own keyboard feels oddly unknown under my fingers which strain and struggle to regain the speed and efficiency they used to have.

I hate these long writing pauses. But to a certain point, I can recognize their "unavoidability". (Yep, I can still create nonsense words that say it all! ^_^)

I haven't written here (or most anywhere else) in such a long time because I had a temporary job (6 days a week). Now the contract is coming to an end (next Saturday, actually) and I expect to be back in the writing business by that next Monday! :)

I honestly can't wait.

Stories have been bouncing back and forth in my head. I've just lacked the time and energy to write them down... which I feel the need to now.

Good came from these last few months of silence, though - aside from a slight increase in the amount stated on my bank account :P. It actually gave me time to think (a two and a half hour bus ride every day will do that to you). I've realized how much I overthink things. I know, I know... I've said it like a million times before so what's different now, right? 

Here's what: I've started to re-read an old Stephen King classic that I love. (If you know me but at all, you also know how much I admire the man as well as his work!) 

Yep. I'm rediscovering The Shining! :)

Last time I read it, it must have been a good 15 years ago. I read it in French. Now I'm discovering it in its original language but most importantly, I'm reading it with different eyes: I now read it as a writer.

I must say, it is the first time since I've studied and embarked on my professional writer's journey where I felt like my "professional writer's baggage" actually didn't stand of the way of my appreciating a book. 

How so?

Because I have just realized that one of the writers I admire the most use very little of all these well-intended advice or rules that you gather along your professional career in the literary world! He writes it as it comes to him.

And it is good.

Sure, there's editing and stuff to make it all edible, but the original flavor remains unaltered!
And from now on, I will aspire to do just that: write my own unprocessed thoughts. 

Now all I've gotta do is decide which story to write... (Got plenty of those.)
I'll keep you posted. And before long, I promise! ;)

It's good to be back. ^_^