Creativity Journal

I am going to let you in on what I have been doing for the past couple of months that has kept me away from the blog in the past couple of months.  I have been keeping a creativity journal which means I am  writing every single day on a wide variety of subjects.

I am studying creative writing at the moment through university and I have been having a blast with it.   One of the things my course asks me to do is keep a writers journal.  A writers journal is a book of observations, ideas, random quotes and pretty much anything else that has interested me or has popped into my head for some reason.  It is a good exercise to get the creative juices flowing and it is also very therapeutic to empty my head of all of the things I would bottle up inside and obsess about for ages.

Ideas, Sharing and Blogging

So that got me thinking about my blog and what I could do to tie in both the things I have spoken about before and the creativity journal that I am keeping each day.  I thought I could share some of the things that I have been writing each day and let you tell me whether you like/dislike them and it also may give me an idea to try and write some short stories or hopefully a novel!

I also thought about having a day where I will take suggestions from you folks of 3 different objects or ideas and then I will write them into some kind of short story.  I reckon this would be a good challenge and it would get me into a good habit of writing and would also let me give you guys something that I have created just for you! I could try and use the few photography tips that I have been given to try and take some photos that tie in with the story that I have written as well.

Another idea buzzing around my head is to do a photography scavenger hunt, for those of you that blog, so we can share photos about our local areas and link up to promote each other.  I think it could be great fun and I hope you guys are on board with it as I would love to see some of the places that you visit in your local area.

Sunset over mountains taken from the plane

This doesn’t mean that I am going to be changing the blog completely to talk  about different subjects though, I am just hoping to include you all in some of the things that I like to do to relax when the pressure of my own pain and Pretzel’s disability get on top of me.

So what do you reckon?  Are you guys up for putting your toes into the pool of creativity with me and coming on a journey?  I hope so and I reckon we could have a good laugh along the way as well.

Until next time folks,  Stay Safe and Keep Smiling!

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Land of Confusion, can you help?

Hi once again folks, this is post 18 of the Ultimate Blog Challenge!

I am in a bit of a confused state with this blog and where it is going to head in future and I am hoping you lovely folks will be able to rescue me with some rational thinking.

When I started this blog it was to start talking about how I was feeling as a father, about my feelings to with my own disability and to share the experiences and stories of caring for my daughter.  Since that time I have managed to get so much support from the people who read this blog and the comments I have had have been so supportive.  There is also the fact that I have found it to be so very therapeutic for myself to be able to clear my head of my worries, concerns and any negative thoughts I may have normally held on to.  I have read so many excellent blogs, spoken to so many awesome people and had so many new ideas about how I want to carry on writing and posting.  That has given me a little problem though that I seem to struggle with each time I come to writing a post.  I am having a running battle with myself as to what ‘fits’ with this blog.  For example I have written a list of different topics that I would love to talk about or post photographs about but they don’t seem to ‘fit’ with the subjects that I have discussed previously about my family or disabilities.  So do I include these in my posts on this blog or should I try to refine what topics I do discuss to make them fit my previous discussions?

My dilemma!

For example I would love to try my hand at writing some fiction, poetry, or short stories. I also thought about possibly doing some reviews of products relating to various disabilities or even maybe talking about the work that I do for charity.  All of these are things that would be totally new to me but offer the chance to expand on how I write and hopefully to improve how well I put myself across to the world.  Having said that, I would never want to alienate the people who read my blogs as you have all made so much of a difference to me that I would like to keep you as part of the blogging experience.

Can you pick out the puzzle pieces to help answer my questions?

So I am left thinking about what to do, should I start up some separate blogs to try out these different subjects or should I create some separate pages on my blog that contain some of these different things or should I abandon these ideas altogether and stick to what I have been writing in the blog up to now?  Don’t get me wrong I won’t be abandoning the subject of the blog as it is now I would just vary the different types of things that I do blog about in future.  I figure the best way for me to do it is to let you folks, the readers of my blog decide what you would like to read about from the mind of little old me.

Should I stick with what I am doing or would you like to see me blog about different subjects along with the ones I cover at the moment?

I really do appreciate all of your support so I would appreciate it if you could let me know what your opinion is.  Leave a comment and tell me if there is a subject you think I would be good at talking about or if the suggestions I have given would be an option.

Thanks again folks and until next time, Stay safe and keep smiling!