“My inner life is an inaccessible landscape when I’m not writing, a foreign and unfamiliar place. It doesn’t feel dangerous so much as remote. I don’t know any other way to get there. The pen lights the way for me – it has always been my only source of illumination. But the further away I drift from the page, the harder it is to get back.”

Dani Shapiro

Happy Free-Write Friday!

I LOVE this quote above.

Writing for me, is about getting and staying connected and intimate with myself. This isn’t just for me though – staying connected helps me be more present to other people and the wider world. It helps clear the fog, bring focus and let’s me download gripes and worries so I don’t carry them into my body and day.

Sometimes, ideas come that I want to elaborate on. Often, I never look at my journal again. Writing, like exercise, is a healthful practice.

I invite you to give yourself ten to twenty minutes, each day if you can, but at least one a week to do some some free-writing. For more on the practice see Free-Write: Wait, What’s a Free-Write and Free-Write: Where You Practice Being Free.

Today’s Free-Write Prompt is:

“You don’t want to wake him,” Bob warns

(a line of fiction from Lisa Genova’s book Left Neglected. Go in ANY direction. Just write without lifting fingers or pen off paper. Let it rip. Write and write and write.

Share what you write, if you wish, in the comments or via email to [email protected] but most important – WRITE!