
Releasing Balloons and Swallowing Stars | Control Vs. Writing
Get out and exercise (practice!) your self-expression, let go of control and swallow some stars. You might just wake with a belly full of dreams and ideas.
Get out and exercise (practice!) your self-expression, let go of control and swallow some stars. You might just wake with a belly full of dreams and ideas.
My passion is writing, and my daily writing routine has been instrumental in drawing me forward. If your passion is also writing, my 2000 days of morning pages show that a daily writing habit doesn’t just fill notebooks, it builds a creative life.
Covid writer’s brain. I know this territory, lived here for years. When I sit down to work (not to write), my focus is fire. I can write emails, code, work spreadsheets for hours without needing to crack my knuckles. Clear-eyed, awake, efficient. But I open my notebook and face the page, and I glaze over. My eyes blur, my pulse slows, my mind drifts into resistance.
I started using the readings as springboards for stories and poems, and for the persistent main character of my current novel in progress.
With a breath, a deep leap of faith, I took a writing plunge with a handful of friends.
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