Posts Tagged ‘writing process’

I’m back!

I really don’t have much more to add beyond that declarative title. Once my semester ended, I took two weeks to decompress — and after five months of constantly feeling my free time should be spent working on class stuff, two weeks of almost-nothing was absolutely delightful.

So what have I done lately?

I wrote (and photographed) a story about kids getting their own mini-vermicomposting bins and it was seriously the most fun I’ve ever had writing a news article. (I also have my own worm bin now which is something you’ll hear about again soon.)

About a month ago (and after it being there at least a year), I was busted by the landlord for my fire escape garden. I was already so stressed by school, I broke down and cried over my loss — until my kid made me the sandwich pictured above, and then I cried some more, but in a different way. The seedlings I started (those that didn’t die from my bitterness-induced neglect) are now enjoying life in the West 111th Street People’s Garden, after I planted them there with my kid’s Brownie troop.

So, now it’s back to the old blog grind. What have you been doing lately?

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Tags: my actual life, photography, washington heights, worms!, writing process
Category Life in Maison Gezellig |

Maybe I have spring fever…

Because I really don’t know how else to explain the worst case of writer’s block I have ever frigging had in over three years of writing this blog. Usually when I find I can’t write much, it’s almost always the middle of winter and not only can I not write, I can’t do much else either. But not this time! I’ve been doing and/or cooking plenty of stuff I feel like I could write about, but nothing wants to come out. For example:

I made my grandmother’s traditional boiled dinner and then made the leftovers into Indonesian-style fried rice (which was fantastic and made me realize that, like Thanksgiving, this is one of those meals that I like leftovers more than the traditional meal).

I made a St. Patrick’s Day pilgrimage out to the Bronx to find one of the only McDonald’s in the five boroughs that offers Shamrock Shakes. (OMG totally worth the trip.)

I went to Chinatown and bought banana freaking ketchup, for frig’s sake!

ANY OF THOSE THINGS could have been turned into a blog post — and yet I just couldn’t manage it. (Well, I guess I could still write about the banana ketchup because I think that’s going to be sitting in my fridge for quite some time.) Well, hopefully this post about nothing will act as a dam-breaker and I can get back into the flow writing regularly.

Because you totally want to know about that banana ketchup now, am I right?

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Tags: spring, weird food from chinatown, writing process
Category Life in Maison Gezellig |