MIA
Yes, I have been missing in action... in the action of writing on a daily basis and posting weekly. Hell, I haven't even posted annually in a number of years.
But... this summer I went to Taos and spent a week with Natalie Goldberg and 30 other women and 2 men. We had writing practice.
What's that?
Just what it says... we practiced writing. We read other authors... I'd never read James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room. (I still can remember exquisite lines from it!) We meditated... We stretched... our bodies... and our courage to write about the underbelly of relationships.
We learned to trust ourselves to rite what we needed to discover about ourselves.
We learned to write badly in order to break down the fear we had of writing the truth, writer's block be damned.
We learned to listen, really listen to each other's literary voice.
It wasn't about plot outlines or character development or marketing secrets... it was about the core of what writers must do--just as musicians d0--practice.
Just practice.
Prompt: What do you need to practice?
But... this summer I went to Taos and spent a week with Natalie Goldberg and 30 other women and 2 men. We had writing practice.
What's that?
Just what it says... we practiced writing. We read other authors... I'd never read James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room. (I still can remember exquisite lines from it!) We meditated... We stretched... our bodies... and our courage to write about the underbelly of relationships.
We learned to trust ourselves to rite what we needed to discover about ourselves.
We learned to write badly in order to break down the fear we had of writing the truth, writer's block be damned.
We learned to listen, really listen to each other's literary voice.
It wasn't about plot outlines or character development or marketing secrets... it was about the core of what writers must do--just as musicians d0--practice.
Just practice.
Prompt: What do you need to practice?
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