2nd Test of First Theory and Positing of a Brand New Theory

This is my second test of how difficult it would be to write 500 words in one sitting. My first experiment proved that I COULD write 500 words in one sitting. And while I’m sure a monkey banging on a keyboard can write 500 words in one sitting, I figure it’s still something to be proud of. Small victories and all that good stuff. While I am again testing my 500 word theory, I’m also here to lay out another goal for another time, after I have more proof that I can write 500 words in one sitting. This goal is to see how hard it would be to write 500 words about one idea. I’m thinking I should start off with some small basic story, like a person getting on a swing, and the joy this person feels swinging, and then this person stops swinging and walks into the sunset, as it were. Yeah, that seems like a good overly-simplistic story  to start out with. Of course, I’ll probably change my mind by the time I get around to implementing this new experiment, but such is the price of being me, I suppose.  If nothing else, I can tell myself that I am actually putting forth SOME effort in this writing endeavor. In any case, I think doing a small story like a person on a swing is a good starting point. I’d like to think of it as being a children’s book story, but that seems to belittle children’s book authors. Sure, they really are small stories with basic words, but nothing is ever as simple as it seems, right? Right. I think that I’m going to have to do many experiments with the writing of 500 words of a single idea, as I fear it’s inevitable that I’ll start over-thinking the direction of the story with each word. That has always been my biggest weakness as a writer. Sometimes I get over it with a simple “fuck it” and get on with my writing, but that’s never happened with a story. It’s only happened with reports. Give me five minutes and the who, what, where, when, why, and how basics, and I can spit out whatever length of  report that is needed. I’ve always been excellent at that kind of writing, but it’s always been a bit of a temporary salve to the writing thirst I feel. Mostly, I find it boring. I can do it, but I don’t like it, in other words. Now, with what I’m trying to accomplish, I seem to have the opposite problem. I love the ideas, but I don’t like the writing aspect. It’s much harder than non-fiction writing, even though I can obviously make up whatever shit I want. Perhaps that’s the problem. I need guidelines and boundaries. And I need to see the whole picture before I put anything down to print. I don’t want to over-think things then, but if I have an idea of where I want to go, then I think I might have a better chance at feeling confident in how to write it. That’s this theory and I’m sticking to it. Maybe.

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