I'm another person just introduced to Christina Henriquez, so gracias for that. But what will stick with me from today's post is this: "alternating between feeling like a fucking failure and a beautiful genius all day long." That's our lives as writers.
Can we put “any way you write is the right way” on a t-shirt? Or maybe a billboard facing the BQE in Brooklyn?
Also: there are so many parallels between the way Christina Henriquez approaches writing and the way I have been taught to meditate. These two practices of stillness nourish each other. It feels like a radical act to do either one in this very loud and busy world. Wishing everyone the best of luck with it this week.
This is my first meeting with today’s contributing writer, Cristina Henriquez. I was delighted to find "Come Together, Fall Apart" fits one of my reading challenges AND was published in the year when my life was falling apart and while much of it has been re-sewn, better, I am working towards healing still in relationship to what happened then. 1000 Words of summer is part of that process. The wonders of synchronicity!
1,117 today. Had to wait all day for the opportunity to be still and ‘stay in the chair’ but here I am, gone 10PM UK time, my wife and children in bed after a full day, tapping out the words that mean so much to me whilst my dog stares at me from her rug in utter disgust at the silly noises my keyboard makes, as if I’m keeping her from sleep. Can’t believe we’re in the second week already. Hope you had a great writing day, wherever you are.
I've experienced the magic of that 20 minutes she was talking about... something about giving yourself some delayed gratification to keep you working... I love that reminder!
1,319 words in the morning session, pshew! I was distracted because I wanted to work on a short story today instead of the work I started yesterday, something that appeared in a dream, but my mind wandered. It took a while. But like Cristina Henriquez says, "... if you just stay in the chair, I believe that the words will find you." And they did. Day 7! Back to the novel tomorrow, but it was a fun party jaunt to another world today.
The mantra I have right now is one that writer Joshua Mohr said in one of Kauai Writers Conference zoom workshops: PROTECT THE MAGIC.
That so resonated with me that I wrote it on an index card, and have it on my writing desk. I think that's what we're doing here, in these days, we're protecting the magic.
I'm another person just introduced to Christina Henriquez, so gracias for that. But what will stick with me from today's post is this: "alternating between feeling like a fucking failure and a beautiful genius all day long." That's our lives as writers.
Yeppppp 😂❤️
1000% 🤣👀💛
THIS. :)
Can we put “any way you write is the right way” on a t-shirt? Or maybe a billboard facing the BQE in Brooklyn?
Also: there are so many parallels between the way Christina Henriquez approaches writing and the way I have been taught to meditate. These two practices of stillness nourish each other. It feels like a radical act to do either one in this very loud and busy world. Wishing everyone the best of luck with it this week.
I had the same thought! One feeds the other, and yet both are very radical.
This is my first meeting with today’s contributing writer, Cristina Henriquez. I was delighted to find "Come Together, Fall Apart" fits one of my reading challenges AND was published in the year when my life was falling apart and while much of it has been re-sewn, better, I am working towards healing still in relationship to what happened then. 1000 Words of summer is part of that process. The wonders of synchronicity!
1,117 today. Had to wait all day for the opportunity to be still and ‘stay in the chair’ but here I am, gone 10PM UK time, my wife and children in bed after a full day, tapping out the words that mean so much to me whilst my dog stares at me from her rug in utter disgust at the silly noises my keyboard makes, as if I’m keeping her from sleep. Can’t believe we’re in the second week already. Hope you had a great writing day, wherever you are.
I've experienced the magic of that 20 minutes she was talking about... something about giving yourself some delayed gratification to keep you working... I love that reminder!
1,319 words in the morning session, pshew! I was distracted because I wanted to work on a short story today instead of the work I started yesterday, something that appeared in a dream, but my mind wandered. It took a while. But like Cristina Henriquez says, "... if you just stay in the chair, I believe that the words will find you." And they did. Day 7! Back to the novel tomorrow, but it was a fun party jaunt to another world today.
The mantra I have right now is one that writer Joshua Mohr said in one of Kauai Writers Conference zoom workshops: PROTECT THE MAGIC.
That so resonated with me that I wrote it on an index card, and have it on my writing desk. I think that's what we're doing here, in these days, we're protecting the magic.