"Why write? Why should we all write? This is what I recommend: purchase a small notebook. Post-its. Colorful pages. Plain paper. Hold a pen. Pick a word and see where that word takes you. Because you store everything in your body: the gorgeous, the ugly, the painful, the ecstatic. It's all there locked away in your cells where memory, tension and confusion remain day after day, waiting to be set free. You don't have to show it to an audience or your spouse or your children or even yourself again. But when it's written down as a list, as a paragraph or poem or story, you can go to bed with a greater understanding of yourself, of the world, or even of both: yourself in this world. And at the very least you know all those things are out of your body. Writing is essentially becoming free. It all begins with a word."
-Victoria Erickson
No comments:
Post a Comment