More than Writers

   Sport your book’s title!  “On Clouds of Words”  “Who made God? " the "unloved child" asked. It was “a whisper,” but "Deborah and Jael" heard. "Jane and Jill, children of Margaret and Edgar, looked away. “Where does God live?” and “Is God very strong?” “David” asked. We need “The Silencer” and “T for Tolerance”, “Rosie” groaned. “God is everywhere”, and “The unloved Wife” answered, feeling “Braver”. “What If” “It’s a darkly hidden secret” or “Open secrets”? “Man of Glass” threw in.   “God has a passionate spirit”, “Martha Martha” replied. ” When Jesus met the Hippies”, they became “New creatures” with “Wings of faith” and “Breaking free”, even “With hope in dark places”. “Still Emily” said.  “Funnily enough”, “Even the wanderer reborn” was like, “Walking Bradley’s history”, “Baby Baby”, said. “It was time to shine” so “The Runaway” sang Lydia’s song”. ”Acquilla” spoke of ”Home truths”  and “ Mystical circles”,. “We are the c...

I'm sharing an example of free writing to reveal how it can lead to freer thinking. It's received wisdom that writers do free writing of first thoughts when barely awake because this helps stir their latent creativity. Mine would be a blur of fatigue and brain-fog in the morning hours, so these free writing exercises are last thoughts done at day's end. The potential benefits of free writing are to increase a natural flow of words when blocked or stalled and unleash deeper, natural creativity. This is an inspiring suggestion made by Natalie Goldberg in her acclaimed book, 'Writing Down the Bones:Freeing the Writer Within'. These unedited exercises tend to be building blocks I set aside for future use. Here are two examples of the results of timed free writing exercises I have undertaken. I offer them with a little trepidation and with the hope they will encourage you to have a go... "Susurration of night sounds hisses in my ears. I can feel the...