Word of the Year 2020: Build 12: Creative Life

My last remaining print books. Alamogordo, New Mexico. June 2013.

 

  On Build thus far

1. Word of the Year 2020: Build 1: After the Floods
2. Word of the Year 2020: Build 2: Fronterista
3. Word of the Year 2020: Build 3: "House"
4. Word of the Year 2020: Build 4: Chosens
5. Word of the Year 2020: Build 5: It Takes a Village
6. Word of the Year 2020: Build 6: Elevation
7. Word of the Year 2020: Build 7: Trail Building
8. Word of the Year 2020: Build 8: Money
9. Word of the Year 2020: Build 9: Health 
10. Word of the Year 2020: Build 10: Service and Activism
11. Word of the Year 2020: Build 11: Relationships

Word of the Year 2020 Lagniappe 13: My Rootless Goals

 

This month is about building my creative life. 

To write today's post, I time-traveled to 1983 to revisit the bucket list I created then. 

In 1983, I put onto paper two creative goals: 

• Write a book and have it published
• Have a story published

These are still good goals. 

 

To construct my creative life, however, these are my goals: 

1. Build a discipline of daily writing
2. Study writing
3. Inure myself to rejection by submitting stuff to digital or print publications
4. Abandon inhibitions that constrict what I write
5. Build my imagination muscles 
6. Expand my creative vocabulary for imagery, actions, and emotions
   
7. Immerse myself into creative pools for the group energy that pushes us to stretch higher, deeper, richer