It's been a busy week, between editing for clients, the slow, in-depth revision of Judith (now a quarter of the way through!) plus information to prepare and send Pearlsong Press for Love is the Thread, my memoir. I have so much to feel grateful for today. First of all the editing has reminded me how much I love to help other writers bring their thoughts and word into even greater clarity. But there's more:
While I finished the last couple of pages of Chapter Nine, a scene where Judith and her best friend, Naomi, prepare for the siege to come, I heard a distant buzz. It took me a moment to return from 600 B.C.E. and realize that a friend was weed whacking my labyrinth! I've always been the kind of reader who feels like I vanish out of the room and into the pages of whatever book I'm reading. Though the world of my own imagination absorbs me, this is the first time I consciously noticed the parallels between reading a book and working on my own. (Plus my labyrinth's half mowed and I didn't have to do it.) And finally:
As I worked on my author bio for the back of Love is the Thread, and contemplated the dedication and acknowledgements pages, I recognized how many people whose love, support and belief have brought me to this point in my life as a human being and a writer.
I believe characters live in one layer of reality and readers in another. It is my job as an author to build a bridge between the two. I strive to share writing struggles and triumphs. Inspired by Jo in Little Women, I began writing at age nine and submitted my first story for publication at seventeen. I haven't looked back since; words, pens and paper, and the keyboard have been my constant companions ever since.
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Slowing Down, Gently
In a meditation class I took lately, I heard the same messages arise inside me several times over the course of the day: "Slow down."
While it served me well during the day of quiet, of peace and meditation, I've been applying it to my writing life this last week or ten days. I have sometimes revised "only" a couple of pages in a day instead of my usual amount.
I am savoring every word, just as I treasure every moment, every breath, of my meditation practice.
While it served me well during the day of quiet, of peace and meditation, I've been applying it to my writing life this last week or ten days. I have sometimes revised "only" a couple of pages in a day instead of my usual amount.
I am savoring every word, just as I treasure every moment, every breath, of my meditation practice.
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