This post is the first of my #100DaysToOffload. The concept, kicked off by Kev Quirk, is simple: to write on your personal blog every day for 100 days.
I am looking forward to the one hundred days challenge, and a challenge it will be, because my most recent writing efforts and current researches are months if not years in the gestation and in consequence I am out of the habit of a daily journal.
I hope the process is instructive and gets my creative thoughts flowing again, as well as being a little cathartic. My very own Pensieve:
One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one's mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one's leisure. It becomes easier to spot patterns and links, you understand, when they are in this form.
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