Comments on: Writing Secrets: write when there’s no time to write—by Erwin A. Thompson http://www.riehlife.com/2008/05/13/writing-secrets-write-when-theres-no-time-to-write-by-erwin-a-thompson/ Creating connections through the arts and across cultures Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:30:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Arletta http://www.riehlife.com/2008/05/13/writing-secrets-write-when-theres-no-time-to-write-by-erwin-a-thompson/comment-page-1/#comment-3035 Arletta Tue, 13 May 2008 18:27:44 +0000 http://www.riehlife.com/2008/05/13/writing-secrets-write-when-theres-no-time-to-write-by-erwin-a-thompson/#comment-3035 In my husband's final days last month, I stored up images, impressions and conversations. It was two weeks before I could enter them in my journal, nearly verbatim. The mind is truly a wondrous thing as we know. For writers, I think our perceptions, emotions and conceptions must take on lives of their own that sometimes fester, expand and develop in our subconscious until the time is right. Then, like a long awaited flower, they take root and bud out. Okay, sometimes it looks more like a weed, but it is our creatively devised weed and, therefore, pretty special. In my husband's final days last month, I stored up images, impressions and conversations. It was two weeks before I could enter them in my journal, nearly verbatim. The mind is truly a wondrous thing as we know. For writers, I think our perceptions, emotions and conceptions must take on lives of their own that sometimes fester, expand and develop in our subconscious until the time is right. Then, like a long awaited flower, they take root and bud out. Okay, sometimes it looks more like a weed, but it is our creatively devised weed and, therefore, pretty special.

]]> By: Rhonda Esakov http://www.riehlife.com/2008/05/13/writing-secrets-write-when-theres-no-time-to-write-by-erwin-a-thompson/comment-page-1/#comment-3034 Rhonda Esakov Tue, 13 May 2008 16:57:50 +0000 http://www.riehlife.com/2008/05/13/writing-secrets-write-when-theres-no-time-to-write-by-erwin-a-thompson/#comment-3034 "Sometimes I write scenes in my mind" Hopefully, smart minds think alike - I do a lot of this also; then go back later on and write the thought down. This often happens when I can't sleep at night; I'll 'write', edit and basically go over the scene many times. Next thing you know, it's on paper or computer as a story/joke/idea, etc. "Sometimes I write scenes in my mind"

Hopefully, smart minds think alike - I do a lot of this also; then go back later on and write the thought down. This often happens when I can't sleep at night; I'll 'write', edit and basically go over the scene many times. Next thing you know, it's on paper or computer as a story/joke/idea, etc.

]]> By: Susan J. Tweit http://www.riehlife.com/2008/05/13/writing-secrets-write-when-theres-no-time-to-write-by-erwin-a-thompson/comment-page-1/#comment-3033 Susan J. Tweit Tue, 13 May 2008 15:36:01 +0000 http://www.riehlife.com/2008/05/13/writing-secrets-write-when-theres-no-time-to-write-by-erwin-a-thompson/#comment-3033 Oh, if only I had the ability to memorize my work at all, much less before writing it down as Eugene Manlove Rhodes could! (By the way, I once had the good fortune to visit his summer place in the San Andres Mountains of southern New Mexico. It's a wonderful stone cabin in a stand of trees where a spring creates a green oasis at the mouth of a desert canyon. It's off-limits to the public now, inside a sprawling desert army base. But you can still feel what drew him there to the silence and the view and the patch of green in the immense desert.) Unfortunately, my memory isn't up to memorizing what I will write before I've written it. And the thing about working as a freelance writer is that my job isn't boring: au contraire! It's fascinating and draws on all my creativity. I'm planning on finding some time for my own words though before the year is out. Thanks, Janet and Erwin, for the inspiration! Susan http://communityoftheland.blogspot.com Oh, if only I had the ability to memorize my work at all, much less before writing it down as Eugene Manlove Rhodes could! (By the way, I once had the good fortune to visit his summer place in the San Andres Mountains of southern New Mexico. It's a wonderful stone cabin in a stand of trees where a spring creates a green oasis at the mouth of a desert canyon. It's off-limits to the public now, inside a sprawling desert army base. But you can still feel what drew him there to the silence and the view and the patch of green in the immense desert.) Unfortunately, my memory isn't up to memorizing what I will write before I've written it. And the thing about working as a freelance writer is that my job isn't boring: au contraire! It's fascinating and draws on all my creativity. I'm planning on finding some time for my own words though before the year is out. Thanks, Janet and Erwin, for the inspiration!

Susan
http://communityoftheland.blogspot.com

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