Deby Adair's Blog - Posts Tagged "writing"
Love to write, hate to start?
Have you ever sat down to write and suddenly everything makes it stop? The phone rings. Your daughter calls with an emergency. Your son’s school teacher needs to see you about a fight he had in the school yard. Your husband needs his shirt ironed. Your little brother picks that moment to poke his finger at you and start being annoying. You remember that you have to walk the dog. The list is endless… interruptions and intrusions. How will you ever get into your writing zone?
And before you know it, you realise that you promised yourself that you would start writing that short story/blog/novel … wait… was that two months/years ago?
You wonder if it will ever happen… you know you want to write something and you sense a real need inside you to create, but somehow it just never happens and then you often wonder if it ever will.
Here’s the thing… creating takes real commitment and courage. It might mean that instead of watching TV for two hours every night, you might have to write for at least one of those hours. Instead of playing with your smart phone on the train or bus it might pay to use that travel time to pen some of your own words instead.
Writing is a discipline first and a creation second. For busy people it’s a real challenge to go into that creative zone and not have it interrupted by daily realities. So don’t give up your dream… stick with it… and if nothing else, when you get a good idea, write it down. There will come a day when you will wish you had remembered all those great ideas because you finally have the time (and the privacy) to really get cracking on them.
Keep on writing and never give up hope!
Deby
And before you know it, you realise that you promised yourself that you would start writing that short story/blog/novel … wait… was that two months/years ago?
You wonder if it will ever happen… you know you want to write something and you sense a real need inside you to create, but somehow it just never happens and then you often wonder if it ever will.
Here’s the thing… creating takes real commitment and courage. It might mean that instead of watching TV for two hours every night, you might have to write for at least one of those hours. Instead of playing with your smart phone on the train or bus it might pay to use that travel time to pen some of your own words instead.
Writing is a discipline first and a creation second. For busy people it’s a real challenge to go into that creative zone and not have it interrupted by daily realities. So don’t give up your dream… stick with it… and if nothing else, when you get a good idea, write it down. There will come a day when you will wish you had remembered all those great ideas because you finally have the time (and the privacy) to really get cracking on them.
Keep on writing and never give up hope!
Deby
Live Dangerously... Battle the Creative Odds & Say Boo To All Those Who Say You Can't.
In one of my Deby moments this is the motto I wrote for myself quite some time back, and which I have posted to my wall... in case I forget.
*Live dangerously, avoid the razor, get hairy and be pleasantly surprised... you only live once, and if you're a Buddhist, you only live once each time... otherwise the long road to ever wondering and regret beckons, beckons, beckons.... when it might have been wonderful instead.
You have to fight to make your dreams come true. And when you think you’re done, turn around; a new fight is waiting in the wings. Become your own best gladiator. Never give up on YOU.
Cheers,
Deby
*Live dangerously, avoid the razor, get hairy and be pleasantly surprised... you only live once, and if you're a Buddhist, you only live once each time... otherwise the long road to ever wondering and regret beckons, beckons, beckons.... when it might have been wonderful instead.
You have to fight to make your dreams come true. And when you think you’re done, turn around; a new fight is waiting in the wings. Become your own best gladiator. Never give up on YOU.
Cheers,
Deby
Imagination is our greatest tool.
Imagination is our greatest tool. When you create something meaningful, you share it with the world, even if no one else sees your final effort. When we imagine, and then create, we are stating by our thoughts and our actions who we are… and that person follows us around day and night for everyone else to see, interact and share with. If we have music in us, then we strum, sing or write our lyrics. If we have art in us then we sketch, draw or paint. And if we write, we are usually sharing our deepest thoughts and projections.
Writing is a tool that can captivate an audience in a way that no other art does. A book presents an opportunity to immerse ourselves, sometimes completely, into the lives of others, and in the process it changes us forever…we have now walked in another’s shoes and we will never be the same again. Although it may be argued that a movie will do a similar thing, the difference between reading a story and watching a story, is that a reader must go that extra mile and play the movie in their head, their way, with only the writer’s word to prompt the screen inside the mind.
As writers, we hold the world in the palms of our hands and, like all projections, how we do it is what counts. Happy writing!
Writing is a tool that can captivate an audience in a way that no other art does. A book presents an opportunity to immerse ourselves, sometimes completely, into the lives of others, and in the process it changes us forever…we have now walked in another’s shoes and we will never be the same again. Although it may be argued that a movie will do a similar thing, the difference between reading a story and watching a story, is that a reader must go that extra mile and play the movie in their head, their way, with only the writer’s word to prompt the screen inside the mind.
As writers, we hold the world in the palms of our hands and, like all projections, how we do it is what counts. Happy writing!
‘Big bank of books.’
Don't you love that moment when you've finished an important project/completed a cycle of events/come over the ‘loop’ with some personal difficulty/put a hardship to bed, and finally had time to relax long enough to realise that who you are today is a much stronger, finer and more empowered person than you were five or ten years ago? I’m sure you all know what I mean… so here’s the good part… if you’ve always wanted to write, this might be the opportunity to jot down those thoughts that will get your creative juices flowing. It needn’t be a novel - it can be a journal or a diary. When we write, if we delve deeply, there are many events in our lives that can trigger the process of creativity. Our thoughts and life experiences are the ‘big bank of books’ and one small experience can often get you started. And, for many, it’s the same with that piece of artwork. We’re all creative in one way or another. Find your great way to creatively express who you’ve become. UnicornKisses to you all!
The rythm of writing
Why do you suppose we love the ups and downs of a good story? Apart from the obvious entertainment value, of course!
Because it imitates our lives from a safe distance and it won’t hurt us a bit… oh, we may have a good cry, a good laugh or get thumping angry, but ultimately, it’s someone else’s problem/love-affair/illness or financial issue.
But I think that apart from being entertained or informed, when we read a story, we’re also identifying with the pattern of things. The beginning, the middle and the end - this pattern being an imitation of our own road through life, many times over the years.
Beginnings are always primed with hope, even if a beginning is a telling tale of something bad and we can’t imagine it happening to us.
The ‘middle’ is like a washing machine filled with mixed colours, and the hope that putting our whites in with our reds, blacks and blues, won’t mean we pull out a wet, discoloured mess.
And ‘endings’, classically, are what we hope, work and pray for - when, with a bit of luck and some really hard work, it all works out - the mystery is solved/ the solution is found/the culprit is dammed – and dare I say it… our characters live ‘happily ever after.’
Happy writing!
Because it imitates our lives from a safe distance and it won’t hurt us a bit… oh, we may have a good cry, a good laugh or get thumping angry, but ultimately, it’s someone else’s problem/love-affair/illness or financial issue.
But I think that apart from being entertained or informed, when we read a story, we’re also identifying with the pattern of things. The beginning, the middle and the end - this pattern being an imitation of our own road through life, many times over the years.
Beginnings are always primed with hope, even if a beginning is a telling tale of something bad and we can’t imagine it happening to us.
The ‘middle’ is like a washing machine filled with mixed colours, and the hope that putting our whites in with our reds, blacks and blues, won’t mean we pull out a wet, discoloured mess.
And ‘endings’, classically, are what we hope, work and pray for - when, with a bit of luck and some really hard work, it all works out - the mystery is solved/ the solution is found/the culprit is dammed – and dare I say it… our characters live ‘happily ever after.’
Happy writing!
We create because we can't not create.
In the past I wrote books in silence with only the beauty of nature to enthral me... the black swans of the lake, the pelicans, the wild lightning storms and the seasonal moods of the doves and the mulberry tree by the door... but things changed.
I moved away from the lake... sometimes I'm in different locations throughout the year... the bright green hills of one place, the coloured birds and the placid orchards of another, in a café, a traffic jam, on a train, so I have learned to write my books 'on the run'... and for this, I have found another way to create altogether... and I would never have thought it possible ... a headset, a laptop, sometimes a rose in a vase and amazing music.
There is always a way to make your art happen... and we each have to find it and never let circumstances stop us.
Unicorn Kisses
I moved away from the lake... sometimes I'm in different locations throughout the year... the bright green hills of one place, the coloured birds and the placid orchards of another, in a café, a traffic jam, on a train, so I have learned to write my books 'on the run'... and for this, I have found another way to create altogether... and I would never have thought it possible ... a headset, a laptop, sometimes a rose in a vase and amazing music.
There is always a way to make your art happen... and we each have to find it and never let circumstances stop us.
Unicorn Kisses
The Naughty Corner
Each book demands a different way of being written. You can plan all you like, plot a certain way, and then you wake up at 2 AM and the book tells you what IT wants! Ho hum... here we go again! Book Five of The Unicorns of Wish is being very naughty... I think it's on red cordial.
