Lady Byrd Creations

I've been thinking... 

...about my life as a writer -- how I can't stop myself from writing, how I write when I'm upset and I write when I'm happy.  I write when I am at a loss for words and when the words come easily.  I write in my head; I write in notebooks or on computer; I write in the middle of sermons and seminars; I write while I'm driving and I write in my sleep.  From this, I have come to the realization -- and am satisfied that this is what I know --- I write because I have something worthwhile to say whether the world wants to hear it now or not and I will say it in an empty room, if need be, as long as I say it. 

 

I blog for LA FPI... 

LA FPI is the Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative (http://lafpi.com).  I had never blogged before when I said "yes" to being on the Blogging Committee.  I figured that it couldn't hurt since the only way to get better at writing is to write; thus, all writing is good.  I never expected to find that blogging has actually made me more comfortable writing submission essays.  Check out my blogs.

 

All the parts... 

I have been focusing on playwriting more than any other kind of writing I do.  It has taught me a lot.  Recently, I have become aware of a deep longing to use all the parts of me which include writing more poetry, fiction, nonfiction, film...  I have always considered myself a storyteller but I made a conscious decision to focus on telling stories through plays.  Well, the other genres are calling for my attention so I guess the new year will include learning to juggle them all.  How exciting...

All the pieces... 

are coming together.  Slowly it seems but together they come.  I completed a poetry manuscript.  The writing process for it was not the same as it is when I write plays but I did find that I was able to create a theme for the piece and stay with it.  Telling a story in poetry and finding the truth in pulling off the skin to reveal the meat, then the muscle...down to the bone...