WORDS OF WISDOM

For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation...they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.

~ Eric Jerome Dickey 

WRITING CAN CHANGE

As our lives change so does our writing. Several years ago I wrote some very dark poetry during a low point in my life. I explored the depths of despair, abandonment, confusion, and doubt. I came through it with the determination to discover who I was at that point in my life. 

It's not uncommon for writers to focus on different events. The great poet, Robert Lowell, wrote poetry of his disdain for the Vietnam War. Herman Melville wrote of the horrors of war during the Civil War. Life's journeys brought me to places I never dreamed of or imagined. Yes, I've been to some of the same places but my point of view has changed. 

While the events I focus on do change, I am still the reflective writer I've always been. My basic style hasn't changed. I can write about a particular place at this moment. A year from now, I can be in the exact same place abut my viewpoint will be different. See what I mean. This is the beauty of writing. It's ever-changing. It can be newly created. Old writing can be refreshed and brought back to life. Keep on writing. Don't be fearful of change; embrace it 

WORDS OF WISDOM

New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to to be discovered and then lived in this trans formative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.


~Sara Ban Breathnach, Author (b. 1947)   

MONLOGUE

I'm working on a monologue of my time spent in Kansas during my military service. It was an interesting time for me because it was a huge change for me. I have two other monologues on the back burner.

WORDS OF WISDOM

Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into ideas, then into more tangible action.


~Audre Lorde (1934-1992)