I’ve been having a problem with my writing. I need themes, and meanings, but all that I come up with seems trite, cliché, old and boring.

I don’t know why.

I have an idea of what I want.

But I don’t know how to get it.

There is something I’m doing wrong here, and I have to solve it. Now. And as fast as possible.

The other day, looking around my laptop for stuff I’d gotten from the internet (I haven’t got one, so I have to download everything to my laptop, remember?) about writing I found something by Holly Lisle. A few articles that suddenly looked different to me from the last time I’d read them. Because I thought I’d gotten them that first time, but as I’ve learned now, things look different when you change and I have changed enough to find that the advice there meant something different to me now.

The first was about Voice. I realized I didn’t knew what my voice was, how it looked like or what the point of it was.

The next ones were a few journal entries from the time when she was having publishing problems and had to, in her words “Reinvent Herself”

Those concepts hit home, and I decided that I would do it. I would find my writing Voice, my Themes and I would Reinvent Myself (capitals just to be dramatic, of course).

I’ve been working on a few exercises, answering a few questions and trying some completely new things (some of them with pretty painful results, like when I tried reading a bunch of poetry. God, the headache was Epic) and will probably be posting some of my results here, so the entries might get a little deep now.

I’m working on this on a notebook so there will probably be photos too. I like photos.

If anyone wants to do the journey with me, that would be nice, but I think anyway I look, this will be pretty lonely work.

Still, I never turn down something that can help me get to know myself better. Or something that can change my current view of the world. So, how did it go?

"Hell-afornia, here I come, right back where I started from..."