On old words and new ideas
I've been blogging for over 20 years (I have a blogger pro hoodie to prove it!) and in that time I developed a couple of projects on my blog that I haven't played with since, even though I really wanted to.
The thing these projects all have in common is the focus on the interlink between creativity and play.
The first project is a series I wrote on the stages of writing (first draft, editing etc) that helped me when writing it. It helped others too, given that the series became one of the most read posts on my blog back then.
The second series was a free workshop on fear, play and creativity, and those posts eventually became a book that I never published, because I didn't think I had enough to make it into a full book.
Oh and, as I'm writing this, another project comes to mind, about mindmaps and how to keep them playful.
The thing these three projects have in common is that I feel excited to work on them again.
The problem is, they speak of the ideas of the writer I was 10 or so years ago. I don't feel, necessarily, that I'm a better writer now as I was then, but my ideas have changed enough to warrant a major edit for those projects.
Do I mind that, though?
No.
Just thinking of these projects makes me itch to rewrite them. They make me want to discover how much I've really changed, how much my ideas on writing have changed.
So, as an in-between project of me writing my novel, I'm going to (extensively) edit these projects, and then figure out how I want to publish them. I could put them up as blog posts again, or as e-books.
The sky is the limit!