Welcome to Day 2 on the journey through The Joy of Writing Journal. Here I share an excerpt from my journey and I hope you will share something about yours—an excerpt, an insight, a challenge, a joy…
Journaling helps me derive meaning. In this excerpt, I begin to find meaning in my own resistance to writing…
…I pull the rock out of the earth
Scoop my hand in the dirt hole
A slimy worm
A root
The scent of earth
My brain too stupid or lazy to describe the smell
Too dull for metaphor
Too wet to catch fire
Dig
Dig
Dig
WIll I find something? Anything?
Your Turn
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I’d love to hear what the prompt inspired for you this morning, whether an insight, a joy, a challenge, resistance, an exploration, a poem or something else…Feel free to share anything about your response or an excerpt of what you wrote today.
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Lisa- there is something so visceral and honest in your writing that I immediately connect to and am in awe of. I for sure have a lazy brain! I see why so many before me have attested to their admiration of your work. I am excited about these October days…
Mary Ann, I have experienced that Lazy brain writing many times. But we keep writing and we dig deeper over time!
Day 2 – Prompt – Writing allows me to have a Voice
When I write, it is a way to listen to myself. In our busy world, I notice people do not have the capacity or time to listen. Listening is truly an Art form. Most times, others may hear my words, but they do not take them in for a deeper understanding of the speaker’s intent. Often, a feeling of loneliness enveloped my space leaving me feeling unheard and unseen. Writing has become my therapist, offering me solace, though it was not my original intent. I pose the question,” Do I listen to myself”? Truthfully, there are times I do not! Until, I started writing. I am amazed and grateful how healing writing can be. It is an opportunity to to learn how to create the best for ourselves.
Wow, Deborah. That is a powerful question. And I am so glad you have found this healing and gift in writing. You are not alone!
Sharing my writing with another person makes me feel alive and awake. In my nonfiction, narration essays I record a human experience I have noticed – uniquely seen by me – but in sharing my words that experience is now is known by someone else. Hearing someone giggle at just the right spot as I read aloud is powerfully felt in my soul. In such a good way!
Yes, there is great power in sharing, Jen.