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The concept really struck me, because there are so many people writing about so many things, that it can be hard to come up with something new.
The best way to do this, is to look to your own life in relation to the subject that you are talking about.
For instance, I wrote a tribute to Australia’s Vietnam war veterans here, but tied it to my decision at that time to run away and join the Foreign Legion after a broken romance.
The most ridiculous thing about my decision at the time was that I had always been a conscientious objector, and although conscription ceased in Australia just as I was coming to that age, I had faced the fact that I was in for a lot of trouble.
Anyway, nothing happened, I never got the girl back, thank heavens, and we all lived on…
When I resigned from my job last year, my intention was to follow my life long passion for writing on a full time basis.
As time moved on though, I realized that when I was working full time, I was achieving a lot more, and was much more organized.
I had also found that I was trying to force my self to write, and it just wasn’t happening for me.
Since Christmas, I have made a point of taking on short term work assignments completely unrelated to what I do on line.
For instance, this weekend, I am hosting a group of Japanese students on a tour of the Jenolan caves in the blue mountains, west of Sydney.
As well as that, for the next little while, I am working as a relief school bus driver, collecting country kids from farms and out lying villages, and taking them to school in town.
Up with the birds, and setting out at first light, I’m covering a distance of over 150 miles each day.
It’s already working, with a stack of ideas on paper, and more forming as I go.
This morning, about half an hour out of town, I picked up a couple of students at their farm gate.
As I changed gears heading up the hill, I glanced to the left, and saw two kangaroos hopping alongside the bus.
I slowed down to let them get away, but they slowed as well. So I tried accelerating, but, they just hopped faster as I did so!
I’d had this experience a few years before, in my wife’s new car, and had ended up hitting a huge male kangaroo.
Remembering the damage he had caused, I tried to take evasive action, but having terrible traffic sense, the animals began to veer into the bus.
In desperation, I hit the brakes and the horn at the same time, startling them and causing them to hop off in the opposite direction!
Now, as well as giving the kids on the bus a scare, it gave me something to write about tonight.
Not especially, and when I am finished this ‘assignment’, I will find something else to do.
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