Where you are now is where you will want to be at some point in the future. The doubt, despair, hope, frustration, dreams you have right now is the key to unlocking truth from your words. This doesn’t diminish your desire to “arrive,” but it will help frame the struggle.
I am excited and scared about a road trip I’m on right now.
Find the thing that helps you find your story. For me, driving is the thing that awakes, loosens characters in my mind and helps me get them to the page. You have to hear the quote I discovered today—and may your story, your life be a song of the soul set free.
Something happens inside when our creative nerve is touched by someone who writes a poem, a song, a story. Your job as a writer is to harness your own longing so that you touch that nerve in someone else. And when that happens, you fuel creativity in yourself and others.
I held a book in my hands and a flood of memories washed over me. Write the article, blog, email or book that you want to return to you in 20 years. Here are a couple of stories I hope encourage you.
It happened again as I was working on the opening to a writing seminar. It happened this week while I worked on a non-fiction piece, as well as a fiction piece. Come to the page every day. No question. But remember that ideas come at their own pace, they run downhill like water and pool. Relax. Keep writing.
When I find validation for something I’ve told you, encouraged you to do, I get excited. Today’s writespo is about you putting yourself into what you’re writing. YOU have to put yourself in.
A phone call from a struggling friend has brought me back to what I don’t know. The soil of your story is rich and loamy—and full of dead stuff. You’re closer than you think. When the struggle in your writing gets hard, you’re close to the emotional center of your writing.
Fear is a powerful motivator. It’s also a friend you don’t want to invite for dinner. I’ve been doing some hard, inner work on the fear I allow to guide me. I’ve hit the delete button on this recording so many times. It’s time to hit SEND and let you in on the struggle.
Is it normal to sit down to write and be flooded with all the other things you need to get done? An answer to that probing question in this week’s Writespo.
A conversation with a friend made me think again about the big picture of my writing and yours. I believe God has given you a desire to write because he has prepared something in advance, ahead of time so that you could “walk” in it. There’s something bigger going on with this desire you have.
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