Too Many Projects!

I have had way too many projects to work on lately and I keep coming up with more! Lately my efforts to read fifty books this year has been consuming a bunch of time, but I'm not going to make it. I will be lucky to make it to 40! I'm going to try, though. I enjoyed the latest book I read about Caravaggio. The book makes me think about the term genius and what it means to be an artistic genius and whether or not it is worth living the turbulent, passionate,crazed existence so many of these artists lived in order to be considered a genius and live on with this sort of immortality. I also began to realize that I have never stuck with anything long enough to get to a point where I'm not just blatantly copying other people's ideas and techniques.

I've also restarted my research on Gabriele Munter and Wassily Kandinsky. My hope is that I can research all this year and then take part in November's Novel Writing Month next year. I waver on how seriously I want to take this project. If I don't do it I'll be disappointed in myself. But there's a part of me that feels like a beginning piano student who wants to play Rachmaninoff but hasn't learned my note names yet. It's technically possible to go note by note and learn it, but is that the best way to proceed? For someone who has never even written a short story I care for, how can I think I could just sit down and write a novel. Then I see an interview on the woman who wrote Twilight and it makes me think, what the heck! WHo cares what anyone thinks and just write however I want!

We went to Festival of Trees for Melinda's birthday and had a good time. It has definitely gotten me in the Christmasy spirit. We even went out and got a Christmas tree and it's not even Thanksgiving yet! I want to try and paint my Christmas cards this year! We'll see....there I go making new projects for myself again. Ugh!