In the Sandbox #20

Nightwalking prompt, yup, again

Truth is, I’m afraid.

Wow, that was tough to write. Mostly because fear is a sneaky mofo, only needing the smallest crack in your psyche to pry into and unleash its bitter poison. It thrives on a lot of things, but in my world, silence is its useful aspect. Nightwalking, as I’ve mentioned before, is tongue-tied, vocabulary-less, often just raw and rank emotion.

And we’ve visited the “Sandbox” twenty times already—while it’s still only July 2022.

Buh it still feels like I’m the only kid in the playground and that makes me lonely.

So, so lonely.

It’s eating me up. I don’t know what to do.

Maybe you get this feeling, too?

…and it’s not even August (photo by StoryShed Media).

—Scrrrrrrrrrritch—goes the needle on the record album.

New day, new outlook.

I started Nightwalking into July and turned a corner, oh, about last week. I had a rough July last year, but I wasn’t on Substack then. Heck, I wasn’t even writing to my old WordPress blog Completely in the Dark (CITD). Or my personal journals (yes I keep personal journals—kept might be the correct tense).

So. I was in a “FALL OUT OF WRITING RISK” situation. And that’s never good, at least in the long run, when you’ve been a writer your entire life. So, I know what I need to do: I need to get out there again. Get back on CITD (we’re in autumn 1993, with a trip to Los Angeles, in case you’re wondering), carve out morning time (the best time) for journal writing, and before it’s autumn/fall 2022, get going on a new editorial slate/new features of a magnitude I suggested in a previous post.

Substack is still a beautiful, beautiful thing.

And it’s gotten more beautiful in our picturesque little village of StoryShedville, Internet, Earth. We have a ton of new subscribers! We’re almost at 40 lovely humans in this cohort. If you’ve recently subscribed and feel so moved, please chime in down in the comments below. It’s still free to all (and likely to be for some time yet), so tell us a little about yourself and what led you here.

Now, as we’re In the Sandbox, here’s the prompt:

What motivates you currently? It could be social justice issues, collaboration and creativity, curiosity, or hell, even—beer. Tell us in the comments below.

And thanks for hanging out here.