Someone referred to a post I'd published many years ago on this very blog. It prompted me to go rummaging around the archives and guess what I discovered? I used to Write. with a huge imposing bigger-than-all-others "W".
I think my writing stems from emotion. dismay, giddy joy, strength, hope, and belief. Something outside used to incite an emotion that simply had to be spent by putting pen to paper.. rather, fingers to keys. Love used to be a huge force dominating my posts... anticipated, longed for, experienced and very occasionally rejected. But I found that as I drew closer to its experience... words became harder to come by. I would helplessly cling to poetry as a vain attempt to emote.. and the more intense the experience became.. I would find it harder to articulate and impossible to publish :)
So where does that leave us now? Surely I can Write. Let me hitch that invisble backpack up a little.. square my slouching shoulders.. breathe in the fresh Mountain air... visualize the goal of icy fresh water cascading down the hills and begin the trek. and maybe when I get there and take my first sip... I can Write again :)
I think my writing stems from emotion. dismay, giddy joy, strength, hope, and belief. Something outside used to incite an emotion that simply had to be spent by putting pen to paper.. rather, fingers to keys. Love used to be a huge force dominating my posts... anticipated, longed for, experienced and very occasionally rejected. But I found that as I drew closer to its experience... words became harder to come by. I would helplessly cling to poetry as a vain attempt to emote.. and the more intense the experience became.. I would find it harder to articulate and impossible to publish :)
So where does that leave us now? Surely I can Write. Let me hitch that invisble backpack up a little.. square my slouching shoulders.. breathe in the fresh Mountain air... visualize the goal of icy fresh water cascading down the hills and begin the trek. and maybe when I get there and take my first sip... I can Write again :)
