Sunday, September 26, 2010
Saturday Writing & Sunday Inspiration
No writers have submitted their work this week and so I'm putting a small conversation here about writing.
As I write, each day, I find that I move with faith. I put words on the page and cast aside all thoughts of grandure and completion and assuredness. None of these are part of the creative process. They are the result of a fearful mind that desires to control the outcome.
Creativity cannot be controlled. It can only be invited.
This is a relatively new practice for me.
In writing memoir, charting over my known experiences, I followed a different course. I knew the story. Or so I told myself.
But in the end, I didn't. Those stories revealed their own endings as well.
Now, as I attempt to write fiction, I wander in a different direction. I trust that one line will lead to another and then another. I also trust that as the days pass, new ideas will rise and invite the direction I need to take. It feels like dancing with an invisible, yet very intelligent partner. I need only be open. I need only be ready. I need only be patient.
Good writing, good luck!
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