Writing Practice Prescription

Seeking the keyboard when everything else calls you away from your computer may be easier with these words from Sara Davidson in her Newsweek Jan 22nd, 2007 article, The First Day of the Rest of My Life:

“That’s the real reason to continue writing now: for the periods when your mind is humming and the narrative unspooling. You lose the sense of time as you’re carried to the place John Fowles describes as “the sacred wood” where the characters you’re inventing start to say things you hadn’t expected, and sentences will roll out that startle you with their rightness.”

To read the whole article click here and give it a few seconds or minutes to load.

Just reading Sara’s words inspired me and recalled for me my observation that:

• We teach what we need to learn
• We preach what we need to do
• We write what we need to learn

I hope you have a few minutes to read this article and reflect on the “narrows” in your own life.