Welcome to my world

I wish I could say that everything is rosy here in WriterWorld - but it is not. It is morning the day after the class day and I wonder if life is worth living (again). I think that I do this every week the day after the class. This is the first day-after that I even feel like writing so I think I might be making progress. I hope that the new people are able to make accounts for themselves and use the Blog. My thinking is selfish - I want people to write more and to work through non-writing - perhaps they can inspire me or each other by posting writings (thoughts, ideas, comments. . .etc)
Right now I have grabbed a interface for the blogger and I am testing it out. It is supposed to allow me to go from text editor to blog without having to deal with the aggravating blog post editor. I say that because no matter how carefully I word my posts paragraphs, the blog editor takes things and posts them any which way - so I want up looking stupid with 2 word lines and no indentations to start paragraphs. I don't dare even try form poems.
But that is off the subject - I want people and this means YOU - to be gentle with yourselves. Writing creatively is tough, especially for adults. The reason is that by the time we reach adulthood, we have learned to turn off our creative processes. Very few adult jobs allow you to be creative. Most jobs in our society follow this path: do the job correctly then do it again and again and again and again with minor variations. the thinking and creativity is for higher ups. So therefore, the older you are the harder it is to access your creativity.
Our brains want to justify being creative so we tell ourselves that we can make money and become famous writers and drive big cars and get invited to Hollywood parties. We tell ourselves that our writing has to be a certain way and that is NOT how creative writing works. Creative writing comes from the place of PLAY. When you were a child, your mother did not have say anything else but go and play. You did not need INSTRUCTIONS. You just did it.
My hope is that everyone will go back to that play place in their mind and pick up a pen or crayons and see what happens. That is my real assignment for this week. See you next wednesday,
Frank