Words of Mine
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The Hindrance and Pleasure of Writing
!! Marie Lindquist !!
When I write I feel pretty good. That is when then the words are flowing and coming together into a good story or poem. I feel I’m in the force when I write and write and I cannot stop. It feels so good and I don’t want it to come to an end. I am one with the words and they want me to succeed and I want me to be successful. There is no choice, I have to do well.
But comes the time when the words are not there for me. No ideas. No flows. Talk about frustrating when I know the words are there but they would rather stay hidden from me. I have had several days in recent times where it is like pulling teeth (yes, I know a cliché) and I wonder why I even bother to keep writing.
Several writers of blogs and journals have made the decision to stop writing. I wonder whether or not that they have had this tussle with the words and the words won out. I do know the writing comes from the imagination and then a word and then another. If I can just keep that up, then I shall have something for you to read most every day. Short to read and a head shaker on your part wondering what I must be thinking.
Entries may be short but I do not want to give up. Take a vacation for a day or two but I shall return. This is my palette and the only way I become better is to keep showing up and give you what I do have – dumb or not.
Yesterday’s poem came from the imagination by taking the alphabet of the word Sunday:
Sunny
Umbrella
Napping
Daffodils
Apples
Yellow
From these words came the poem they flowed from my fingers. When the words don’t flow, I feel like a dried stream or an abandoned house. Empty.
mz. em
What I’m Reading:
“Chronicles of Narnia” by C. S. Lewis
“How to Keep a Sketchbook” by Michael Woods
“Valley of Bones” by Michael Gruber
“At a Journal Workshop” by Ira Progoff, Ph.D
“The Dragon Reborn” by Robert Jordan; Book Three of The Wheel of Time
Since I am a Barnes & Noble affiliate, any books you purchase through the link here gives me credit. So, if you feel so moved I would be appreciative.
1:46 p.m. - Monday, May. 30, 2005
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