Showing posts with label Writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Writing. Show all posts

Monday, September 06, 2010

Listening for the words

When asked "why he wrote?" Thurber replied.....


"I don't know what I think until I read what I have to say." 

For those who think they have nothing to say, who can't imagine writing a blog, a poem, even a simple letter to a friend, my encouragement is for you to write and write and write.  I think I agree with Thurber in that we might often think the muse is nowhere in sight, that we have little to say on a subject.......and yet, all that has to be done is to begin - they're there, the words are there.

Don't be afraid to listen to yourself - the listening may be from a place you never imagined or from a Creator that you've never given a thought to.  The words may only be between you and that Creator - don't be afraid to write, and most of all, don't be afraid to listen to your own words or to the words that reverberate back to you!

Photo courtesy Lucy - SS at Camp Cross - caught listening:)