It's not insanity to keep painting the same wall, writing the same book, the same poem, as long as you're trying, learning, revising, and approaching the next big idea with love in your heart
Lovely and lovingly expressed. I'll keep painting the wall whatever the results so long as I can continue reading "In Your Own Ink" Sincerely, The Supreme Benign Ruler
"Better than dark chocolate." Now that's something else!
The big splashes of color on the screen of my life came during meditation, when I felt a great love for humanity. The writing splashes come when they come!
Dan Fogleberg's 1970s' song, Longer, talks about the books of our lives; how we've evolved--now it's screens! I like the idea of splashes of color in relationship to love for humanity--I wonder which begets which?
When this one popped into my inbox, I looked at the title and thought 'not today', I was bogged down in first semester assignment quicksand, but this morning I jumped on in and it was the reading I needed to over come the analysis paralysis. thank you
"...when you have nothing and everything to say all at once." Those words certainly speak to my experience. I'm an early morning writer, pen and ink in a Moleskine journal. Usually five or six pages including some squiggles and doodles. Sometimes I wake in the morning knowing exactly what I want to write and that thought motivates me out of bed. When I get to my writing desk the important thought sometimes morphs into an unexpected idea and gives me new words to work with. Joy Roulier Sawyer (author, writer, creative writing coach and workshop instructor) encourages us, "Go back and read what you just wrote." I've found this advice helpful. I often read what I wrote yesterday before I begin today's work. I watch for those little sparks (on the page and in the world) that keep me going. Yesterday the "spark" was an unexpected conversation with a stranger. Thank you, Andi, for sharing your process with us.
I wake in the morning knowing I *must* write, but rarely with an idea already formed. For that I need my first cup of coffee! I writing to a self-imposed deadline when it comes to the memoir, so "spark" or no "spark," I have to keep writing according to the structure and arc I've mapped out for the book. I trust that an idea will catch fire eventually. And when it does, I become a late-night writer!
Lovely and lovingly expressed. I'll keep painting the wall whatever the results so long as I can continue reading "In Your Own Ink" Sincerely, The Supreme Benign Ruler
"Better than dark chocolate." Now that's something else!
The big splashes of color on the screen of my life came during meditation, when I felt a great love for humanity. The writing splashes come when they come!
Dan Fogleberg's 1970s' song, Longer, talks about the books of our lives; how we've evolved--now it's screens! I like the idea of splashes of color in relationship to love for humanity--I wonder which begets which?
When this one popped into my inbox, I looked at the title and thought 'not today', I was bogged down in first semester assignment quicksand, but this morning I jumped on in and it was the reading I needed to over come the analysis paralysis. thank you
Happy to help! Thank you for taking the risk to jump!
"...when you have nothing and everything to say all at once." Those words certainly speak to my experience. I'm an early morning writer, pen and ink in a Moleskine journal. Usually five or six pages including some squiggles and doodles. Sometimes I wake in the morning knowing exactly what I want to write and that thought motivates me out of bed. When I get to my writing desk the important thought sometimes morphs into an unexpected idea and gives me new words to work with. Joy Roulier Sawyer (author, writer, creative writing coach and workshop instructor) encourages us, "Go back and read what you just wrote." I've found this advice helpful. I often read what I wrote yesterday before I begin today's work. I watch for those little sparks (on the page and in the world) that keep me going. Yesterday the "spark" was an unexpected conversation with a stranger. Thank you, Andi, for sharing your process with us.
I wake in the morning knowing I *must* write, but rarely with an idea already formed. For that I need my first cup of coffee! I writing to a self-imposed deadline when it comes to the memoir, so "spark" or no "spark," I have to keep writing according to the structure and arc I've mapped out for the book. I trust that an idea will catch fire eventually. And when it does, I become a late-night writer!
I can't imagine how much joy this brought your heart! And... she's 100% right. 😁