This
past year I have not written for abbyelsociology once. Well, I’ve tried to
write down ideas and titles when they come. But I have not sat down and written
prose for a year and I’ve just been reflecting on the writing processes for
creators. During this year I have consumed a lot: YouTube videos, journal
articles, advice from my master’s dissertation supervisor, some more YouTube
videos, Instagram posts, Facebook group posts about MLMs, wedding nightmare
stories, how to DIY furniture (even though I have not and have no plans to DIY
any furniture), TED talks etc. The things I have created in the past year
include: a master’s dissertation, an unsuccessful proposal, a successful
proposal, Instagram posts, a home for our newly built house (cheesy I know), a
wedding, a schedule for travelling Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington and
Vancouver. But the one thing I haven’t done is create a blog post.
Now
it is October and it has turned colder and it is raining [more frequently than
it is in the summer], the outside is quieter with people staying indoors. I
recently read a post by Evanna Lynch in which she documented her struggles with
wanting to create all the time. She quoted somebody else in the way they
mentioned that our creative processes are like seasons. Like nature, we cannot
be in full bloom all year round. We need the autumn to reap in our creations
from summer. We need the winter to rest and prepare. We need the spring to
slowly begin to bloom. And we need the summer to complete our blooming and see
it at its height. For me, although I have been in spring and summer for the projects,
I mentioned above that I have created this past year. In terms of this blog, I
feel as though I have been at the end of autumn/the beginning of winter for the
past year and I am now slowly coming out of winter and into spring with this
blog post. So, when I say I like it when it rains, what I mean is I like that I
am ready to create again for this blog.
So,
this post has been very unlike me in terms of the content and writing style. But
I wanted to write something to acknowledge the fact that it has been a year and
introduce the new layout and banner for this blog [a photo I took from the gum
wall in Seattle, Washington]. I will be back to the sociological analysis in my
next post. Perhaps, I will sociologically analyse this very post?
