Sometimes It’s Just There

Sometimes I sit down to write and I know what I want to say – or more to the point, I know what direction the plot should take but that doesn’t always mean the words come easy. If I don’t really ‘see’ the scene, meaning if I don’t really know what’s next, it is useless to even try – writers block given new meaning.

But  if I really know, or ‘see’ the scene – if it is alive within my skull… well then the words come alive under my fingers. It is like I’m in a zen state, my fingers moving almost on their own, the words pinging off the inside of my head as they finish being typed, and I revel in the form the story flows into.

Sometimes I am working on making those words happen, searching my dry mind for the drops of water to drip out. But I am happy for those couple hundred words and smile – for I am still writing.

Sometimes it is a torrent that floods, sometimes dew collected in the morning, and sometimes a desert.

But if you have the words, if you feel the flow – there is one thing I know… let it go!

Worry about what is being written when you are done – truly done. Once you have typed ‘The End’ then go ahead and fret and worry. But while you are writing – just marvel in the wonder of it.

Because THAT is being a writer. All the rest? Well all the rest, is being an author.

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