What writing 'season' is next for you, at the culmination of this 'season'? How will you know it will be time to move forward? What characteristics will guide your movement? (For more clarity, see posts from 3.30, 3.29, and 3.28.)
Month: March 2021
Pandemic Poem #34
*originally written 7.2.20 Darby Dan training loop and Greenway trail, 5.52 Sometimes we learn things we have believed for decades to be untrue. Like the wiry, dry flowers lining highways in July are chicory, not cornflowers. (They are both blue) Or that friendships can grow and change and evolve through conflict into something new.
3.30.21 Journal Prompt
What writing 'season' did you just come from/out of? How do you know? What were the defining characteristics of this 'season'? (Look back to the 3.29 and 3.28 prompt for more clarity, if needed.)
What to Do When Words Don’t Come
Being in that place where it's time to put words down on the page but they refuse to show up can feel incredibly isolating, but it needn't be. Since the days of papyrus and charcoal (or whatever ancient writing implements were used!), feeling blocked in getting our ideas from the abstract to the concrete faces …
3.29.21 Journal Prompt
What "season" is your writing in currently? How do you know? (See yesterday's prompt for more clarity, if needed.)
Dear Reader 3.28.21
Dear Reader, Today's note is coming to you a little earlier than usual, if you even notice. My usual Sunday morning routine of spending the morning in my local, tiny, coffee shop is being preempted by teaching this morning, and a full afternoon of errands, lesson planning, meditation class homework, and working on an essay …
3.28.21 Journal Prompt
How does your writing change with the external seasons?
3.27.21 Journal Prompt
If you could name a singular emotion you feel about your writing process in this moment, what would it be? Explore this word.
Time to Write: Getting Words to the Page
Now that we have all this space and paper, what on earth do we begin to write about? This may be the easy part for you--you may have been wanting to write for quite some time, but lacked the impetus. Stories of your grandkids, poems about your travels, a blog about breakfast cereals. Perhaps the …
3.26.21 Journal Prompt
Do you have a writing dream you do not pursue or have repressed because of a past experience, comment, or self-limiting belief?
3.25.21 Journal Prompt
What *are* my actual writing dreams at this moment?
3.24.21 Journal Prompt
What is the smallest step I can take right now to make my writing dreams come true?
Relationship Poem #1
A new relationship is all fun and games until it evolves into some fun and a few games at which point it can only become a former relationship of no fun and all games.
On Control
What is control, anyway? This urge, this compulsion to hold on to the good and keep away the bad, to the best of our human ability, (is what we perceive only good to us? Can our good be someone else's bad, and vice versa?), this unwillingness to sit, vulnerable and open, in the flow of …
Dear Reader 3.21.21
Dear Reader, From the first piece of writing ever published, the debate of what makes a writer 'a writer' has raged. Are you a writer because you write? Are you a writer only when you publish? Are you a writer only when you are paid for your work? Or are you only a writer if …
Words by Beth 