Maps II
Earlier this week, a coworker asked about my upcoming “retirement”. I explained that it was a career change. When told I was going to write, and that my first book was a science fiction novel, I got the response of, “Oh, you must read a lot of science fiction”.
“No” was my one word reply.
He blurted out, “Then how are you going to write one?”
Maps, everyone want one, everyone expects one. How can you do anything without someone showing you how, telling you how? Read how it is done, copy, rinse, repeat. Take years of writing classes. Be an English major. Then maybe you will have a map to success.
Or in my case, I’m just going to write. It will be raw, it probably won’t be great. But it will be mine. And I will learn from it, and get better.
Then there is the move to the beach. Decluttering. Simplification. Whose map are we following? We are not.
And if this works for us, it will not be a map for anyone else. But maybe it will give someone hints, clues, their own ideas. We use many other people’s ideas… like the one below. Not a map, but a worthy clue to getting where you want to go.
