Good evening,
I am not sure what post this is in the 100 days posts, but today all day today I had to remind myself to write. My experience of writing is; to sit at my desk, close my eyes and type – therapy for me. Once the writing has come out of my heart, and through my fingers, I close out of the document; regardless of if it is published or not, I do not go back and read my writing.
I have so much to say today and yet also nothing to say, in my first post I said for me this practice was to show up each day with no excuses. To write, process, see what the practice of showing up every day brings me.
When I was studying creative writing, I had a lecturer send me some feedback on an assignment, I enjoyed her teaching and feedback style, she was almost aggressive with how straightforward her opinions and teaching style came across on the discussion boards and lectures. It was a practice of mine to send a draft of all my assignments and always ask for feedback to make my writing better, deeper, stronger, broader. The lecturer sent me words of advise on studying a writing degree. I found these words baffling – this lecturer had a career with a university to teach creative writing.
Her words were:
I have always thought creative writing degrees are bullshit – go and live your life and write from experience.
Honest, wise words and true for anything we create in our life. Experience shifts our gaze, influences how we view the colour of our surroundings, light of the day, textures, connection with people and mother nature. Experiences explode on our taste buds and rings in our ears.
You know this makes me think I should go back more often to read old writing to see what I was experiencing at the time and how I translated what was happening. It is also a good reminder to be in the present, to breathe into the senses let them guide.
That’s it for today – create from life experience.
Have a beautiful night.
Love
Melinda
I really love this!