4 Days Remain in 2024
A Question and an Image to Spark Creativity during the #last100days2024
Welcome to my #last100dayproject!
There are 4 days left in 2024.
Today’s question: What do you need to know?
Today’s image:
For the last 100 days, I invite you to join me and experiment.
Each day for the remainder of the year I will share a question and a photo of an item.
You are welcome to write into the question and/or the photo.
Or you can start a new ritual or experiment of your own creation.
I would love to hear about your progress on whatever project you want to begin!
**NOTE**
I do not share drafts of work online because most publications considered this published. You are more than welcome to share your piece in the comments, an excerpt or an update.
I hope for the comments to be a community for us to share these wins.
A little more about me: Tammy L. Evans is a writer, teacher, and coach living in a tiny house on a peninsula with her husband and adventure cat. Her location device is her loud laugh. She is working on a non-fiction book about how to submit and publish your first pieces. She is the creator and host of THE BRADBURY TRIO COURSE. Her poetry has been published in The Storyteller, FoxGlove Journal, Story Hall, Blue Insights, The Partnered Pen, and others. Her fiction has been published in Gone Lawn, Cabinets of Heed, Spelk, Five on the Fifth, Clover and White, Fiction Berlin Kitchen, and others.
Girlfriend, you throw these questions out there that seem innocuous, boring even, but they're like a moss-covered trap door on the forest floor. I found myself mildly annoyed by the semantics of the question at first: what do you mean by "need" and "know." I got a little stuck on that, on answering the question correctly :) Where in the continuum between wants and needs does the fulcrum lie? So I looked up Maslow's hierarchy of needs to get some ideas, and I settled on the top tier, self-actualization, as a very productive place to explore. One of the subcategories here was morality, and it reminded me of this quote from Rebecca Solnit's Recollections of My Nonexistence related to how the process of our own writing leads to a greater awareness of our core value system: "You discover what ETHICS are implicit or explicit in how you describe the world, what ideas of beauty you're going to pursue, what your subjects are, which means what you care about, all those things labeled style and voice and tone behind which lies a question of self." (p123) So to answer your annoyingly thought-provoking question, what I need to know is the implicit subset of my ethics as a writer. I suppose the knowledge is all there, but the need comes in making it explicit. Thanks for this question, Tammy. I'm enjoying starting my daily writing with your posts.
Great question, Tammy. The photo makes me sad. I have a rule, the Christmas tree stays up until AFTER new year.