It is all very cool.  This month I am the featured columnist for
The Meta Arts www.themetaarts.com and you can see my picture on the
homepage.  Each month I take a card from the tarot deck which I am
creating and write a piece to go with it.  This is
challenging.  I can say that I really think I've had only one
stinker article.  That happens, so my batting average is rather
good, if I do say so myself. 

Every once in a while, the FMS kicks in and clouds the brain.  If
one does not have this condition, then it is not easily
understood.  Think about wearing a fishbowl over your head filled
with smoke or fog.  Now walk around doing all of the things that
you need to do.  You cannot see as well.  You cannot hear as
well.  Everything seems outside of yourself, outside of that
fishbowl.  You can miss things and never realize that you
have.  This is horribly annoying to a person whose brain used to
be razor sharp.  The ego waves bye-bye and you learn to laugh at
it, laugh at yourself.  You give up trying to explain and let
people think you're an airhead or just plain stupid.  Yes...you
learn to see yourself through new eyes. 

Apply this to writing.  If you are in the midst of some situation
where you are distracted, say an emotional crisis or extreme stress,
you can find that you miss things that you normally would not. 
Most of these moments pass eventually.  Your life can get back to
"normal" and you may continue your craft.  Consider, however, if
you could not get out of this whirlwind.  How would that affect
your writing?  Would you change how, where, or some other
aspect?  Would you push forward insisting that nothing change,
even though life does not agree with you?  Each person handles
such moments in their own way. 

For me, this strange "gift" has allowed me to delve into areas that I
might not otherwise have been able to access.  Each experience,
whether good or bad, brings us just that...experience.  I seem to
recall some writer...karowack?  I neither know the spelling nor
the writing, but that seems the genre.  They wanted experiences in
order to become a better writer.  Everyday is filled with
experiences if we just pay attention and take hold of them, casting
them onto the page.  You can turn a walk to the store into an
entire article.  The taste of ice cream could inspire a
poem.  Each of us has a unique view in that our lives are not like
everyone else's.  Thus, we might each write the same story about
the same theme and end up with completely different prose.

To which I say, "Cool".

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