It’s been a while since I’ve had a post on writing. It’s
because I haven’t watered my garden lately and feel since it is spring/summer,
it is high time I get to watering.
Have you ever hit a writing slump, where you want to be
writing but then nothing happens? You sit day after day tapping on the keys,
then you realize nothing really makes sense of what you wrote? That could be
considered writer’s block, but wait, no it can’t because you did write it just
didn’t sound right or make any sense.
Here in Nebraska we get very little rain. That depresses me
because I love the rain and cool weather. My whole body responds and I get a
lot more writing done that makes perfect logical sense. When it’s dry and you
go from winter and jump right into summer with ninety-degree days, my body
shuts down. The sun is scorching the land and my body responds with aches and
pains I didn’t feel in the cool crisp weather.
Here’s what I noticed: We recently got out and planted our
garden. Seeds sprinkled here, plants positioned there and the garden now needs
tending. Miss one day of watering and a droop falls over the plants as if
hanging their head low wanting to be refreshed.
Writing is a lot like that; you’ve planted the seeds whether
in your heart and soul, or on the blank page. You’re all set to sit down and
tap away. Blank, you draw a blank. Water, you need water, you’re in the
drooping phase of your writing garden, and you need nurturing.
Slap me upside the head with a wet rag, I’ve decided to
spark my muse with a little watering from an f2k session again. F2K WAS a free
course, but now it is offered at a ten dollar fee, a sixty day membership with
WVU, and a book Pumping Your Muse, by Donna Sunblad, author and member of WVU.
It is free to members, which I am a lifetime member so it is
free to me. It looks like a promising session since a lot of the people who
signed up for the FREE course, really just came to see what it was all about
and soon would leave when they knew there was work involved in writing. Yes
people, writing involves work, just as tending a garden.
Writer’s Village University, WVU, is a writing school that I
began studying at many years ago. It has helped me tend my garden of writing.
Sure I’ve had ups and downs throughout the course of my stay but really there
has been more ups than downs.
I am no longer a mentor which gives me hope in a promising
course after being told I would be allowed full access to all the classrooms,
not just sitting in a lone room, where visitors would pop in, and classmates
would dwindle. This session when the class gets low, I can actually roam the
halls and visit other rooms and comment and help writer’s as I’ve been known to
do in years past.
There is always hope in the Garden of Writing. I’m sure I’ll
keep you abreast of what is happening and how it’s all going, so stay tuned…the
garden will soon be in full bloom soon.
