Gotta Get Up

Well, not the video games part but as for the rest of the song, it is my official ‘call to arms’ for the inner writer who’s been dormant for the past decade and change. Why? Because self-manifestation is a bitch I’ve been comingling with for far too long.

I remember telling people over the years who have asked that while I was a good writer, I hated doing it. Well, so said, so done.

This blog is the first truly original work of mine in more than half my career as a journalist/editor/college lecturer – 13 years to be exact – but having to get up and back into the groove of things hasn’t been easy.

These creative muscles of mine are super cranky and vulnerable in a lot of ways so I’m using this space as a diary of sorts to organize the chaos in my brain’s barrel of content.

Complacency, you ain’t gon get me

But you did though. Sheesh.

You see, just like everyone else in this world, I have ideas. Ideas that plague my dreams, some so intense they explode as brain farts on the wind when my mind gets crowded and needs to be vented to make room.

Some of these… let’s call them ‘explosions’, have been fortunate to make it onto a piece of paper. Sadly, most have not and this is why I’m here – to catch as many of them as I can so they can be etched in history and make space for new ‘explosions’.

My noggin is a repository of several books, shorts, movies, a play or two – all waiting to be organized and released and this space is where I’m hoping to map all of it out.

Because I’m just…

Tryin’ to get sumthin

… for myself.

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Song: Gotta Get Up (Another Day)
Artist: Jill Scott (featuring 4hero)
Album: Experience: Jill Scott 826+
Release date: 2001