Monday, July 20, 2009

Why am I blocked?

I've been reading Dr. Wayne Dyer's Excuses Begone!, How to Change Lifelong Self-Defeating Thinking Habits, which I believe is doing me some good. I haven't applied it, yet, to my writing; although, for the last three days, the advice from the book has been helping me stick to a low-cal eating plan. Now, I need to apply it to my daily writing habit...or, non-habit, as the case has been lately. I have no idea why I am so blocked right now. Is it hard? Not so much...turn on the computer, sit, type. Is it scary? Well, physically, I am in no danger. Mentally, they are just words on the page at this point, right? Will writing/publishing these words create family drama? I don't think so, because I sincerely doubt any of my family will read them. So, why the block? I don't know. I haven't finished reading the Excuses Begone! book. Maybe, by the end, I'll have figured it out.

Sunday, July 05, 2009

Writing a resume is hard!

I have the worst time writing my resume', but I think I've come up with something suitable. I've sent it out to several friends for review. Hopefully, they will have some good feedback soon.

I've been attempting to change fields for the last several years, and that is harder to do than you might imagine. Especially in this economy.

And how does a simple two-page document appropriately sum up or give an overview of complicated me? Everyone is complicated, but I perhaps more so than others, due to the fact that I have worked freelance in creative fields for so long. Creative people don't have steady career trajectories.

And to top it all off, Microsoft Word is always trying to get me to correct the sentence fragments. Well, it's a resume', for goodness sake. You are supposed to write in sentence fragments!