It’s already the last day of May, and the promise that I made after finishing the thesis – to rest my brain cells from the entire creative writing process and only return to writing when May starts. Unfortunately, one of the side effects of making that thesis was learning the (dis)ability of not particularly sticking to self-imposed deadlines and completely relying on deadlines set by other people, which is not entirely conducive to the creation/completion of creative works (regardless of genre). By this point, all I have are too many thoughts hastily written down on scraps of paper (yes, not even a proper notebook), and though at some points these thoughts intersect, I never really bothered writing them into a complete, understandable piece (even fragmentation needs a chunk of coherence). Never even bothered to type them all up, another hang-over from college days, where the now-cliche flickering cursor on white blank screen necessitates an urgency for completion that scraps of paper don’t have (ironically, it is supposed to be the printed or written word on paper that has the most weight; hard copies are still necessary for many subjects I went through as an undergrad).
So, to at least salvage these scraps – to pressure me into writing, particularly completing them – I decided to make this new blog. New, because there’s this feeling that the I writing in that blog is now markedly different from the one speaking/writing right now, and with the numerous starts/restarts in that blog, I feel that there’s a need for (fooling myself with the notion of) a fresh start (since again the aim’s more of completion rather than beginning again – it’s always easy to begin but not to end smoothly).
And I’ll make my (oft-broken) promise again – to write regularly and with discipline, because as another cliche goes, writing is both a craft and an art. Updates probably every lunchtime for weekdays, weekends optional. Topics, the usual smorgasbord of art, politics, online life, and the occasional lulz.
I hope I don’t break this promise again; no, I resolve not to break it again.
