Working Out Loud #352

Some more working out loud. A marvellous concept that I read about in-depth in the book “Working Out Loud” by John Stepper.

This creative journey. An opening out of ideas – and the lack of focus that emerges. Thus, all of these projects underway, open loops:

• Working on at least 6 non-fiction pieces
• Working on 2 new poetry collections
• The second novel, about half written and left for at least 4 years.
• Developing ideas for a collection of ambient pieces of music
• Early ideas for the second album of spoken word and music
• Various blog themes including “People who inspire me” and “Intuition over Logic”
• A 365 day photo exercise with the team in work

So many creative projects – in a way  I love the diversity of it all. But in the middle of it all, sometimes time devoted to just one project until it is finished is important to build confidence and resilience.

Without a mix of focus and opening out of ideas, nothing gets done. And amongst all of this I am reminded by a voice from my past that not everything has to be finished. Some projects are there to be abandoned, tidied up and closed down, or turned into something else.

In that list above there are at least 14 live projects, and that isn’t everything I am working on at the moment. Working out Loud. Sharing as I go.

Without an audience, without communicating there is no point.

“#352”? What do I mean? Well, I guess a lot of my blog posts are in the guise of working out loud. That is what blogging means to me. So, this is probably at least the 352nd post where I am working out loud.

(November Challenge 15/31)

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