Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Tue, Nov 17 2009
What you are and what you write: Bigger than the sum of both parts
Part of what I've done with this blog lately is try to keep my head in the fiction writing game while I've been busy doing other writing. It's a little like writing letters to keep an friendship going during an absence, except I don't get a letter in reply. You might laugh and say that means I'm talking to myself, which would be partly true. But I'm also talking to anyone who loves writing, who breathes, eats and sleeps writing and oozes writing from every pore whether actually writing down words or not. What we are as writers is more than veneer. It's as much a part of us as heart or blood or skin. We might not be thinking actively of it every living moment, but it's part of us at every living moment. And our writing will live on long after we cease to move and breathe in this life. If you're in a situation right now where your hands aren't on the keys or wrapped around a pen as much as you'd like, remember your upcoming legacy to other humans and find any way you can to keep it alive.
posted at: 16:15 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
Part of what I've done with this blog lately is try to keep my head in the fiction writing game while I've been busy doing other writing. It's a little like writing letters to keep an friendship going during an absence, except I don't get a letter in reply. You might laugh and say that means I'm talking to myself, which would be partly true. But I'm also talking to anyone who loves writing, who breathes, eats and sleeps writing and oozes writing from every pore whether actually writing down words or not. What we are as writers is more than veneer. It's as much a part of us as heart or blood or skin. We might not be thinking actively of it every living moment, but it's part of us at every living moment. And our writing will live on long after we cease to move and breathe in this life. If you're in a situation right now where your hands aren't on the keys or wrapped around a pen as much as you'd like, remember your upcoming legacy to other humans and find any way you can to keep it alive.
posted at: 16:15 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
