Thank you so much for your comment - writing is a beautiful way of being and doing, life does not always play nicely tho does it! The words help me make sense and often I have no idea where or what will emerge -that was the big learning . Sanity is writing perhaps?
All I can say is that journalling is writing, jotting down words, sounds, feelings, gather your ideas in small batches, build it up. I remember reading about a famous writer who as a child did not actually write, but made up stories in her head. So the physical act of writing is a way of being creative for sure, yet it can be expressed in many ways.
The question seems simple - 3 items, but it led me to dig deep and think for myself!
It means so much to me this touched you - lovely to meet you Taja
Saying to yourself "I was born to write. I am a writer" is a revolutionary act in the beginning.
Great story, Lucy. It let me think. I feel closeness with you. I was born to be a writer, but life has had different plans for me. At the end I try to "keep my sanity by writing". Not to be a writer but I need "thinking for myself". My three items … I would like to answer, but today I have no time. I just wanted to say: “Thank you so much for this story”.
I think one of the things I learnt from the exercise is to define for yourself what type of writer you are, it may not conform, yet it is honest. So have as many items you need as they are totally in synch with your life and th eperson you are. I still as I have not cracked this whole shebang yet I do have to deal with comparison. Yet this compulsion keeps us going. I cannot not imaging doing anything else.
Glad to hear from you again and thank you for taking the time to respond!
Love your three things! That one is an action is pure delight.
My desk is mobile. I suppose you might say it’s in the van in which I live (a foldable deal on a rotating arm that also serves as breakfast table). Or it’s the folding, adjustable desk that lives in the passenger seat and gets set up here or there depending on where I park. And always there’s the foldable laptop holder and rose gold external keyboard and mouse in my rose gold-ish soft briefcase or pink and orange backpack depending on how far I have to crate it all to set up. That’s more than three things I realize. But thanks for the fun question! ♥️
I've done this exercise before and it usually stumps me! Thanks for sharing your experience, Lucy; it gives me another perspective. And lightens me up!
Three things: a coffee mug a friend gave me, loaded with pens and highlighters. A photo of me as an infant with my grandmother and my father's favorite aunt. My manuscript in progress, printed and strewn all over my desk.
Tell me about it - yet that I think that is part of the learning process, this funny old writing life, that is a tantric existence, nothing stays the same, organic, fluid, and as we evolve it shifts again. I am sure if I came back to my desk in a years time the objects might change! The dsire to improve, to communicate will always create some friction, no matter how successful the writer.
Hope you are well and thank you so much for taking the time to read and tada comment!!!
I look forward to finding new weird objects that do appear like magic! Yes papers are part of the process - sometimes it is a miracle that I can see the actual desk
Thank you so much for your comment - writing is a beautiful way of being and doing, life does not always play nicely tho does it! The words help me make sense and often I have no idea where or what will emerge -that was the big learning . Sanity is writing perhaps?
All I can say is that journalling is writing, jotting down words, sounds, feelings, gather your ideas in small batches, build it up. I remember reading about a famous writer who as a child did not actually write, but made up stories in her head. So the physical act of writing is a way of being creative for sure, yet it can be expressed in many ways.
The question seems simple - 3 items, but it led me to dig deep and think for myself!
It means so much to me this touched you - lovely to meet you Taja
Saying to yourself "I was born to write. I am a writer" is a revolutionary act in the beginning.
Great story, Lucy. It let me think. I feel closeness with you. I was born to be a writer, but life has had different plans for me. At the end I try to "keep my sanity by writing". Not to be a writer but I need "thinking for myself". My three items … I would like to answer, but today I have no time. I just wanted to say: “Thank you so much for this story”.
I am such a dolt - the reply above is for you - I forgot to press "reply"
I think one of the things I learnt from the exercise is to define for yourself what type of writer you are, it may not conform, yet it is honest. So have as many items you need as they are totally in synch with your life and th eperson you are. I still as I have not cracked this whole shebang yet I do have to deal with comparison. Yet this compulsion keeps us going. I cannot not imaging doing anything else.
Glad to hear from you again and thank you for taking the time to respond!
Love your three things! That one is an action is pure delight.
My desk is mobile. I suppose you might say it’s in the van in which I live (a foldable deal on a rotating arm that also serves as breakfast table). Or it’s the folding, adjustable desk that lives in the passenger seat and gets set up here or there depending on where I park. And always there’s the foldable laptop holder and rose gold external keyboard and mouse in my rose gold-ish soft briefcase or pink and orange backpack depending on how far I have to crate it all to set up. That’s more than three things I realize. But thanks for the fun question! ♥️
I've done this exercise before and it usually stumps me! Thanks for sharing your experience, Lucy; it gives me another perspective. And lightens me up!
Three things: a coffee mug a friend gave me, loaded with pens and highlighters. A photo of me as an infant with my grandmother and my father's favorite aunt. My manuscript in progress, printed and strewn all over my desk.
Tell me about it - yet that I think that is part of the learning process, this funny old writing life, that is a tantric existence, nothing stays the same, organic, fluid, and as we evolve it shifts again. I am sure if I came back to my desk in a years time the objects might change! The dsire to improve, to communicate will always create some friction, no matter how successful the writer.
Hope you are well and thank you so much for taking the time to read and tada comment!!!
I’m so happy you’re back writing, Lucy.
Yes, even months or days from now, the objects may change. Except perhaps the papers everywhere!
I look forward to finding new weird objects that do appear like magic! Yes papers are part of the process - sometimes it is a miracle that I can see the actual desk