Compulsion To Write

Five minutes free writing.

Forgiveness seems an odd place to begin; am I forgiving myself, or am I seeking forgiveness for others, or are there individuals who I ought to, or who I want to, forgive.

Is the process of forgiveness a way of wiping the slate clean, to then allow new thoughts, new ideas, new grasps from consciousness to enter.

Will I become free, will my writing become free; but what do I need to escape from, what is it that traps me.

Are the barriers of my own building, are there techniques to open the lock gates and let the waters (words) flow.

Is it important, or necessary, to set down in lead the thoughts which dash from place to place in my mind.

Is it ok to be wistful?

Highlight three words.

Lauri

Where does writing begin

Grown by sunlight of presence

Time & nourishment & love

Words float in on the breeze

Begin Here - Try For Yourself

Enjoy the day

Feedback session

At end of exercises

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

How ideas work

No material body

With consciousness

With will

Ideas search for available and willing partners

You might miss the signal

The idea may try to wave you down

Until the day when you are open

Lead In…

Lost, in search of a word

I chose another word

I wrote, balanced

I was not satisfied

With this substitute

But I used it

Lost, or confused by love

And its loss

I wrote about departure

I was not satisfied

With this leaving

But I left anyway

Lost, in need of explanation

I asked

Why do we hang things on walls

I was not satisfied

By the three ducks flying

But I used them

Now, or as near to

I must

And I do

I was not satisfied

With the must

But I did…

 

Stepping Points

How many times

How many more times

Why

Do I disrupt my own self

Why

Do I ponder

On that which is not wonder

So then

How many times

How many more times

Once more

To look at the clock

Once more

To look at the clock

You can stay all night

If you want to

How many times

How many more times

Why not take hold

Take hold of the doubt

Which dismays you so

How many times

How many more times

So think on

Think on of the hopscotch

As you count from one to ten