Mr Mascellani's Musings

Something I do well be writing. Me, I be real good at writing.

I be good at writing because I has this natural talent for it.

(All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to
write.-Gabriel Garcia Marquez.)


I be real good at writing because I have natural talent and

I work at writing. I been work hard at writing for many much

years-ever since be a little boy and still be work hard to be

better good writer. I reads muchly much much-many books and

things. I read biographies of writers, and interviews with.

I writes much lots too and that I be a real good writer.
(There is a deep inner resistance to writing- Dorothea Brande.)



I likes to write good writings. I likes when I write some

good writings and someones they says to me.


"Man, you writes good writings, you be a good writer".

(Writing a novel is a very hard thing to do because it covers so long
a space of time, and if you get discouraged it is not a bad sign,
but a good one. If you think you are not doing well, you are thinking
the way real novelists do.-Maxwell Perkins, in a letter to Nancy Hale.)



that and all makes me feel real good as real good as me writing.

Pop! When I writes good I feels like an owl that swoops on a

mouse while the moon is red with cybertechnical conundrums. Yep.

(I would never encourage anyone to be a writer.It’s too hard.
Eudora Welty.)


Me be good at writing.I likes to write the stuffs that be clear

and concise. I good at that.I gives me a gold star for the

goodness of mine writing. I hopes you enjoy it, my real good

writing.

(I used to spend the morning procrastinating and worrying,then
plunge into the manuscript in a frenzy of anxiety around 3.00pm.
when it looked as though I might not get anything done…the fact is
that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them?
Will it be good enough?...I suspect most writers are like this.
-Margaret Atwood.)

Click!

In order to overcome a case of writer’s block, and to silence
my internal critic, and just for the fun of it, I decided to
do a ‘Google’ search on ‘Writing Prompts’ and do the first
prompt on the list-which happened to be:
What is something you dislike about yourself?


It was not all that long ago (a few years of so) that the above
writing prompt would have had me writing a long list of things
that I disliked about myself. And if had come across such a prompt
when I was age that I think that the above-mentioned prompt site
is aimed at, I would have written volumes as to why I disliked myself.

But now, as an adult, I have to stop and think what I don’t like about
myself-that is not to say that I think I’m perfect, far from it. There
are things that I would like to change and improve about myself, but
I don’t dislike myself because of those things.

I have come to learn that it does no good, in and of itself, to dislike
yourself. It is good only if it is a prompt for action.

For example, because of my age; the fact that I don’t exercise
regularly;and I love to eat, I am not as a fit as I would like to
be (to be specific, I have a gut and man boobs.) I dislike this
about myself. And I plan to do something about it.

In fact, I am doing something about it. I am drinking heaps of
water, I’m back on the CSIRO diet, (which I went off during the
Xmas/New Years break), I’m working harder at work (which
can be quite physical, lots of walking, and lifting- but nothing
really strenuous) - and I’m trying to get back into the habit of
regular exercise.

I also wish that I was less introverted that I had the ‘gift of the
gab’,that I had more confidence and a better ability to sell myself.
I plan to improve the aspects of myself by joining Toastmasters
which I’ve heard good things about.


Beep! Beep! Beep! Time’s up.

Have a happy new year!

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