Writing Practice and the Muse who is ALWAYS THERE
Writing Leap #50
Happy Creative New Year Writers! May you have many spontaneous bursts of ideas for your writing. And the discipline (ah yes) to sit down and turn some of your sparklers into articles, stories, plays and poems.
An unexpected moment can tickle and delight us. Writing about it (as close to the moment it happens as possible—carry your notebook with you at all times) can be great practice in capturing a revealing aspect of you the writer or your characters. In fiction, the moment may not tickle you the author, but if it tickles your character the reader will get to know him better.
Here’s mine.
Teddy is almost five months old and he is going to Paris. What will his eager little face take in when we, his grandparents, send his parents off to a café and push him in the stroller down the Boulevard St. Germain? I can’t help the ripples of delight I feel each time I imagine it.
And the funniest thing? Teddy needs a passport! His mother texted me a picture of this passport. He is smiling one of his new grins and he’s all official now. I stared at the passport, shook my head, enjoying lots of tickles around my funny bone.
Here’s to your tickle moments writers! Maybe your own passport picture will inspire a funny story?
Warmly,
LINKING THE ARTS
An Old Master Painting
Franz Hals, Dutch, 1582-1666. Tickled by an owl?
Good Word. Delight As in the kind that bubbles up like a well.