The Secret Ingredient
Last night I had a wonderful dinner with one of my best friends in the whole world. We laughed, we talked, we had a drink. We had such fun, that long after we’d finished eating, we lingered a while to keep talking and be together.
And you know what?
The song I’d been trying to come up with all day, started happening on the car ride home.
And if I had to say there was a secret ingredient to writing, I think it would be giving the mind a chance to play… seeing people, doing things, having a good meal, driving to a place you’ve never been before… in other words: being out in the world.
Because essentially, isn’t that what we’re doing… creating a world and peopling it with characters who will one day come to life?
As solitary as writing can sometimes seem, I was reminded last night that it’s a good idea to pick your head up from that blank page every once and a while and put yourself out there.
–Sue
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