Creative Writing Wordshops December Newsletter

Inspiration and Discipline

This month’s letter concerns this relationship between inspiration, the subject arriving, and the blank page/screen, when we induce the labour and the writing yawns, stretches its limbs and arrives at its own pace. Being moved, by the spirit of the words or beginning you know not where.
The first throw of this letter is a 03.22 awakening from a dream.

Sometimes that night travelling angles (a Jungian slip) the writing. I think of Naomi Epel’s book, where 26 writers such as Maurice Sendak say how their dreams inspire, sometimes not subject, rather tone or atmosphere. (Although once I dreamt an entire children’s story about a crone who tells a
boy how to see his ear).