Recipe for Writers In Tumultuous Times
Our Words Are Desperately Needed
A Recipe for Writers in Tumultuous Times
• Take a heaping cup of Community (with a capital “C”), your creative Community, full of nourishment and shared courageousness.
• Optional: Add up to 1/16 teaspoon of current events - maximum. No one’s soul can stand more than that.
• Mix and marinate useful information in your mind - ideas, thoughts, words of hope and healing.
• Strain out all damaging drivel.
• Read vastly and voraciously - immerse yourself in learning about your craft.
• Inhale hope in large quantities. Inhale hope again. And again. And again.
• Write voraciously. Keep your hand moving across the page, you are writing history. Your story matters. Your words matter. You matter.
• Exhale negativity and toxins. You are not a vessel created to hold damning and damaging falsehoods.
• Rest
• Rise.
• Write again. And again. And again. And again.
Beautiful, Jacque. I must admit I am weary from it all. But write, I must. Inhale Hope, exhale negativity…take in your inspiration and let it penetrate deeply. Above all else love and gather together with loved ones. Communities = connection = courage.
Thank you for this beautiful reminder, Jacque. Your words were chosen with so much heart and creativity. I needed this today. Writing truly is a healing tincture.