A
Flash of joy
of
inspiration, epiphany
a
sudden awareness
On
the page before me
As
I write,
Seeing
the words appear
out
of the air
Knowing
they are right
Clear,
concise
An
Embodiment,
captured
quickly
only
momentarily,
Of mind’s eye
and fleeting thought
---
edited
March 21, 2015
Flash
of Joy – v5
(editing
version 3)
edited
January 14, 2015
Flash
of Joy – v4
(editing
version 2)
edited
January 14, 2015
Flash
of Joy – v3
(editing
original)
edited
May 24, 2012
Flash
of Joy – v2
February 2, 2004
11:44
Flash of Joy
– Written in
reaction to the response to the poem “Into Being”
by Roberta Woods –
“Love it! You've captured the essence of writing not as
a discipline but as joy. And it is
because it is pure joy (the agony comes later during revision) it is not a
discipline in the sense of having rigid edges.
All doing from joy is a gift to the doer as well as the recipient
whether cooking, writing, gardening or any other activity. My joy activities are writing and carpentry. All the rest require me to have discipline to
get them done. –Roberta”
&
January
31, 2004 19:28-19:36
Into
Being
–
About the process of writing as merely writing down the words, suggested by
Roberta Woods earlier in the day. I see her point, based on the way my writing
often comes quickly. Even when I edit it as I write, it is more to get it
right/write. We had been talking about “one-book wonders” and had segwayed into
a discussion of how she writes daily and how, when she starts writing a story,
it often is prolific.
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