Project Blog It

Road Trip Girl and I have begun a project in an attempt to get us out of the ruts that our lives have become. We're both creative, intelligent people (at least I like to think so, and I believe Road Trip Girl would agree). However, we both work highly demanding, stressful jobs, and we both have personalities that lead us to give those jobs all we have. The result is a huge personal cost. We've not made time for the things we truly love and for the things that have meaning for us.

In an attempt to move us back to a place of balance, and to try to jump start better introspection, thinking, and perhaps most importantly, creativity, Road Trip Girl and I have started Project Blog It. The rules are fairly simple. Every Friday we each make a post on our respective blogs: Travel With Road Trip Girl, and Shmonkey's Jungle. The posting is based on a prompt assigned by one of us in the week before posting day. There are really no other rules. Road Trip Girl and I can discuss our writing or not. We can brainstorm together or not. We can critique one another's writing or not. The point is to always post something on Friday, and to create a mutually supportive and encouraging situation that fosters the development of our individual writing skills.

Looking forward into the future from my position in the present, I think our weekly writings will be very diverse; sometimes creative fiction, sometimes creative non-fiction, sometimes personal, sometimes philosophical, sometimes academic, and all of the other possibilities in between. As long as we write and push beyond the narrow frames that have been imposed upon our lives and our minds by our environment.

We welcome you to stop by every Friday. Read both Travel With Road Trip Girl and Shmonkey's Jungle. See how each of us tackles a topic differently. Engage us by commenting, please. Consider joining our project by picking up the weekly prompt and making your own posting on Fridays.