It's great to be back with my online creative writing group - we had a long break over Christmas. To get started, we wrote acrostics about something that makes us feel good and shared them.
Sometimes connection is the spark you need and it certainly flicked a switch for me this week. January had me stuck in dark doldrums, thoughts twisted inwards. Meeting like minds reminded me how to escape into my writing again.
So, having sent my story off, to hopefully find a place in the hearts of others, I am writing on. Building on foundations of experience and history, taking that leap into the unknown - only this time, not alone.
Happy arms
Understand the need
Giving Warmth
Sharing love
Twist the dibber, twist the dibber
Make a hole, make a hole
Push it deeper, push it deeper
Plant the bulb
Roots point down
Shoots stick up
Hole full of earth
Water and hope
In a creative writing zoom this week I wrote a Reverse Snowball. The prompt was 'on the beach'. It's funny how random images come... randomly!
So here's what happened when I closed my eyes and let the pen take over
Waves wash the footprints away
Shingle shifts and sand sinks
Lapping, cleansing, shimmering, sparkling
Calm - turbulent - calm
Back forth
Waves
