It Felt Like the Right Time to Do It - So I Did It

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You know those periods you go through when all of a sudden you’re super productive?

All of a sudden you feel an urge to get things done, to step up a gear and move forward towards a goal that’s dear to you.

Last weekend (I’m writing this on Saturday, so it’s exactly a week ago) I started to watch videos by fellow bloggers, with the intention of learning from them. If they were doing this full time, then so could I - but how?

The reason I’ve been writing on here every day was because I wanted to take this writing business seriously. I told myself it was now or never. I was so close to deleting this blog but something inside me told me to give it one last shot. That’s when I decided to write 300 words a day. 

It was a way for me to create a writing habit. 

And it worked. 

But I needed to find a way to reach a wider audience.

That’s when I began to look for ways to move forward.

Saturday night I began to read You’re a Writer (so start acting like one) by Jeff Goins.

I finished it on Sunday morning, in a cafe, with my small white dog on my lap. Come to think of it, I must’ve looked not too dissimilar to James Bond’s Dr No, but I wasn’t planning world domination - at least not in that sense.

I realized one thing: I had to have a basic foundation. Well, I had a basic foundation - it was this blog, so I needed to go to the next stage.

I needed a website.

Come Monday morning I had a meeting with a friend, and he informed me of several options for creating a site. 

I should say that I’m not tech-savvy in the slightest. When it comes to computers and the inner-workings of the internet, I’m pretty clueless. (My mum showed me how to work an iPad.)

When I got home from the meeting, I continued to do some research… and then I plunged straight in to creating a website.

I’m pleased to announce that my website, gavinwhyte.org is now up and running. I’ve been working on it since Monday, and I will continue to tweak it here and there, but, as it stands, I’m pretty happy with it.

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I haven’t decided whether or not to continue posting on here; I'm edging more towards giving my new site my full attention. We'll see.

So it’s a new chapter for me.

And I always welcome new chapters. There’s nothing like change to move things forward.

I hope you will continue on this journey with me, for I see nothing but a promising horizon ahead.

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300 Words a Day - #7 - Caring about Time

My wife booked us cinema tickets to go and see a rerun of E.T, thinking it would be nice to watch it on the big screen.

We arrived at the cinema, got our tickets, and then was told they had changed the movie.

“So what’s showing instead?” asked my wife.

“Trainspotting,” came the nervous reply from the employee.

Luckily, all the Taiwanese children were at school. Instead of the cute alien in drag, wanting to phone home, they would’ve got a drug addict, diving down a toilet.

The film proved itself to be a timeless classic, making us thankful for the last minute swap.

(I was told, that because it was a film festival, they were allowed to change the movies as and when.)

Watching Trainspotting made me want to watch Trainspotting 2. For some reason or another it wasn’t shown here, in Taiwan.

So when I got home, I watched the trailer and a ten-minute video, which had interviews with the director, Danny Boyle, and all the main actors.

He said something very interesting:

“When we’re teenagers, or in our early twenties, we don’t care about time. But when we grow up, we realize time doesn’t care about us.”

So true.

Although, in my case, when I was in my teens and early twenties, I did care about time.

Maybe too much.

An awareness of the impermanence of my body seemed to kick in rather early. 

I was writing ghost stories when I was six.

I would rush to the non-fiction section in the library to read books on ghost sightings and the paranormal.

My early interest in the unseen seemed to be preparing me for something.

Preparing me for the grand becoming.

Life.

The never-ending process of growth.

And the same applies to you.

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