Yes, it is the first Wednesday in the month and that means another installment for IWSG. AlexCavanaugh is our favorite Ninja blogger. He originated this group! I found a book, at the book store the other day, by SARK. I opened it at random to p. 55 and there was a prompt called "Nourish the Writer"
I flipped back, on p. 49 and see she has a whole section on WHEN WRITING. I will highlight some of the key points.
For those who don't know who SARK is, well she is an inspirational guru who inspires people, to dream, dare n' do. She has unique creative ideas on how to do just that. She uses color, playful inner child-like exercises, yet there are undertones of serious blended throughout the book.
"People often ask, "What is your routine? Do you write at a particular time of the day or night?" I laugh. I'm tempted to make up a story that will sound sensible or inspired, or somehow magnificently creative. ....More often, it is a random and ordinary and lucky. ....The inner critic puffs up and becomes enormous. He stands at the gates, shouting about content, form, and grammar. His job is to prevent me from actually writing." (WE ALL KNOW HIM or HER)
"...How do you get past the critic?" run! You do anything. You lie, slide on your stomach under the gate, papers in your mouth, you present false papers-whatever gets you past the critic. ...Then, when you have written, you can wave your pages at this critic in vengeful joy."
(Off to catch some fleas, for my circus and challenge hubby (who is home today sick), to a game of Scrabble! Do you love SARK, do you have a Flea Circus, do you play board games, do comic books inspire you? Do you create an orb? (I think I need a big bubble like Glinda has in the Wizard of Oz).
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I flipped back, on p. 49 and see she has a whole section on WHEN WRITING. I will highlight some of the key points.
For those who don't know who SARK is, well she is an inspirational guru who inspires people, to dream, dare n' do. She has unique creative ideas on how to do just that. She uses color, playful inner child-like exercises, yet there are undertones of serious blended throughout the book.
"People often ask, "What is your routine? Do you write at a particular time of the day or night?" I laugh. I'm tempted to make up a story that will sound sensible or inspired, or somehow magnificently creative. ....More often, it is a random and ordinary and lucky. ....The inner critic puffs up and becomes enormous. He stands at the gates, shouting about content, form, and grammar. His job is to prevent me from actually writing." (WE ALL KNOW HIM or HER)
"...How do you get past the critic?" run! You do anything. You lie, slide on your stomach under the gate, papers in your mouth, you present false papers-whatever gets you past the critic. ...Then, when you have written, you can wave your pages at this critic in vengeful joy."
"The critic is not stronger than you."
"Sometimes writing feels like a Flea Circus, made of intricate and tiny movements that are unseen from a far, but actually busy moving and building."
"I create an orb for the writing to be born into. There are rituals for this:
Systematic cleaning and organizing, playing certain music, and the gathering of silence."
(The gathering of silence is like cloud watching)
HOW TO START
The list only goes up to 7!
Can't write 7. I'm not good enough
I can write because 7. You are enough.
You have enough. You do enough.
"Go play a game: Parcheesi, Monopoly, Backgammon, Scrabble or Bridge. Games provide a respite from the particular intellectual parts of the mind used for writing. You can still ruminate, and ponder and interact with another person or people. "
SARK says: "The hardest part is starting!"
It is a SARK kind of day, I also used her inspiration for a poetry prompt~
Comments
Go play an instrument. That gives time to ponder as well.
Lee
Tossing It Out