Reading and writing to save your life
Feathering a your writing nest to bring new ideas forth
Act as if. Act as if you’re a writer. Sit down and begin. Act as if you might just create something beautiful, and by beautiful, I mean something authentic and universal. Don’t wait for anybody to tell you it’s ok. Take that shimmer and show us your humanity. That’s your job.
-Dani Shapiro, Still Writing
I’ve been immersing myself in the words of other writers in these recent days that feel more like months. The desire for a container to hold all the weight of this time is fierce, and it shoves everything else out of the way.
I’m reading like Mary Oliver describes reading in Upstream, “…the way a person might swim, to save his or her life.” The question that’s guiding this devouring of books is simple, but not easy: