I've been practicing writing - truly practicing - since the Covid 19 Pandemic. In that time, I've filled many notebooks with writing - most of it from writing prompts - simple idea starters - and some of those sessions have yielded essays I've put out in this blog.
I've been feeling lately like it's time to move to the next step - as one of my writing gurus Natalie Goldberg writes ..."turning our flashes of inspiration – the thunder and lightning of creation – into a polished piece of work."
And that's where this book comes in - Goldberg's Thunder and Lightning. It literally fell off my bookshelf when I was cleaning up my office last week, Tucked between its pages was a yellow sheet of paper torn from a notebook. I recognized my mother's familiar scrawl. She wrote:
Essay by Robert Pope: "Beginnings may be entrances to a time and place, a culture and a faith, a moment, and eternity. The struggle to find first words creates great anticipation, if not great anxiety, in the writer searching for the voice in which to speak, for each writer hopes to reach the voice inside which is immortal."
I think she's trying to tell me something!
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