What is it about writing that fills us with such joy, such peace, provides calmness and release? Is it the stories that we tell, they way they are told or is it just the simple act of getting it out that makes us feel this way?
For me I know that when I write something - that is when I learn what is going on in my mind, my heart and my soul. Sometimes I surprise myself because what I had intended to write - is something completely different by the time I am done. But its perfect and exactly what I wanted it to say.
I love the days when you have absolutely no idea what you want to write about, what the topic is - yet you push yourself to just sit down and get started. I love those moments of hearing your fingers hitting the keyboard and watching the words you are typing show up on the screen. I love the moments of surprise when you read your own writing and find that by some miracle that a) it makes sense and b) you actually did have something to say.
I believe there is so much going on behind the scenes in our worlds, lives and brain - to name but a few, that it should be no surprise there is always something to say or sort out in one manner or another. My husband for example - figures things out in his head and then talks or writes about it, where a friend of mine figures it out as she speaks. For me, I just start typing.
I love the sense of adventure of not knowing what is going to come out and what it is that I actually wanted to say. Don't get me wrong - not every day is productive and on more than a few days I laugh at what I wrote and then close the file quickly before anybody else has a chance to read it.
I do however have to say that most everything I have written has come to use at one time or another. Some thought, some brief trail of words that seemed so alone with no home when I wrote them all of a sudden are perfect in my third novel when I am trying to explain something. I love it when that happens, it gives me confidence that I am doing something I love and that I should be doing.
Is there anything that you have thought of or written a while ago that didn't have a "home" so you just saved it on its own? Is that message now valid for your current writing? Could you have now found your missing piece and solved your own case of writers block?
Take a look and I'll bet you will find the answers are already there... you just need to look.
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