Tayari's Blog: Making it Happen
Posted by TayariJones on June 12, 2008 08:12 PM
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So, as promised, I went to a coffee shop and Ribe Tuchus(ed). Before I left, I wasted a lot of time gathering my belongings.Crisis#1-- I couldn't find my pen.I tore up the apartmemt looking for it until I got over myself and just grabbed a cheap pilot pen. After that I fretted that maybe the coffee shop was overly airconditioned. I should wear a sweatshirt. But it's so hot in New Jersey right now... You get the idea. I was finding reasons not to work. I finally dragged my raggedy self to my favorite local cafe. At first it was weird. I sat at the little table with a cup of decaf, pulled out my paper and pen, and just sat there. I looked around. I tried to rope innocent people into conversations. Then I wrote my name a few times, practicing new signature options. After that, I wrote a strange sentence: "Every disaster begins with an idea." I am not even sure if this is true, but I rolled with it and just continued to write. Who knows if the three or so handwritten pages I ended up with are decent from a craft standpoint? The point is that I wrote them and felt good writing them. I could almost feel the rust flaking off my brain as I scribbled away. It was so good. I almost cried.
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Comment #1, by jafari ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.tayarijones.com/blog/nav-commenters.gif)
Thanks.
i have a photo of Audre Lorde above my desk [that one with the appraising look from the cover of "Sister Outside."] with her quote: "Forget the muse. There is no muse. You just sit down and work." But this has had diminishing returns lately, like my Samuel Delaney quote that reads "Not writing can become as much of a habit as writing." [he ain't never lied]. Time for new motivation or methodology. And fear will not do, anymore.
so i will try this today.
no class today and no one knows i am in the office because i am wearing headphones, not burning incense, and have only my desk light on in my little blue cave here on campus.
Rib Tuchus[ing] [and i always thought it was with a k].
June 13, 2008 01:51 PM
Comment #2, by persistence
I'm proud that you're trying the decaf thing. I had to let go of the caffeine about a year ago (and I have been a Starbucks employee, so I was totally addicted). But, if you make the decaf strong enough, you can almost (almost) fool yourself into thinking that it actually works! Eventually, your body will adjust.
June 14, 2008 03:27 PM
Comment #3, by Tara Betts
I understand feeling uncreative. There's also the whole thing of taking care of yourself AND Ribe Tuchus-ing. It really does work, but I'm learning the hard way that you have to do BOTH! I love that sentence that you mentioned too. It's provocative and you wonder who's speaking and what they're about to tell you. That's one of the things that I love about good fiction.
June 15, 2008 01:54 PM