Questions Questions Questions

I find my mind is full of questions at present, with very few answers. It is most definitely true that “Every question is easy if you know the answer” Just as “Every puzzle is easy if you already have the solution”

For me I feel as if I have too many questions and not enough answers. Do you ever wish you had a crystal ball to see just what the future holds? Oh I know it would take the fun out of this onward adventure we call life but it would really help with certain decisions. For example do you take a new job somewhere new or is it worth holding out for that promotion closer to home? Would this novel be better if I focused more on this character or that one?

I don’t want complete spoilers, just snippets will do. If you could see into the mind of many writers I think most people would wonder how on earth we concentrate on anything.

My latest discovery is it helps if I write some of the questions that have been bothering me down so I can add the answers (hopefully) when I have found/decided what they are next to them.

Especially if you have a bit of a sieve for brain like me, it also helps to jog my memory on things. Current examples of questions I had this time last week were.

“Who is attacking and why?”

“Where is this character and how do the others locate them?”

“When am I going to finally sort out my paperwork?”

“What shall I have for tea?”

“Should I pick a topic for this essay now just to get it out the way?”

As you can see my mind goes off at tangents quite a lot. Life’s questions get in the way of my writing ones. They screw with my focus and then my brain just decides “Nope that’s too much to answer, let’s do something else like watch telly”

But the questions are still looking at me on the page just waiting for the answers, some of which are still eluding me. However with writing things down more I am finding that at least with the questions now looking at me in black and white, they are harder to ignore. It’s just the focus I need to work on and then I can only hope that the answers come to me in time.