🧵 Thursday Thread: All Your Burning Questions
What's Gnawing At You Lately? I'm Interested In All Of Your Burning Questions On Writing, Creativity & The Challenges (On And Off The Page) Of Living Big, Beautiful, Creative Lives
Hi, friends,
It was fun to explore questions together yesterday. The whole idea of questions as a quest, the recognition of the power of questions on the page. Powerful stuff.
And some of my favorite posts among WITD’s Lit Salon feature are the creative advice column entries. I realized yesterday that one of the reasons I like these posts—both writing them and re-reading them—is because they do, in fact, feel like quests.
Quests into the mystery of creativity: how we choose it, nurture it, persist with it, devote ourselves to it, even when it’s not easy. So many of those posts have stayed with me, to name just a few:
Want To Write? Get Uncomfortable
Hungering For A Home That Could Hold Her
So for today’s thread, I’m inviting your questions. Any and all. Short or long. Simple or complex. Practical and personal. All are game to share if you’re willing.
What are the questions that hover above the page, or inside it?
What are the questions that stand between you and the creative life you wish for yourself?
What are the questions that keep you from finishing the thing you’re working on?
What are the questions that keep your creative life smaller than it could be?
What are your practical and logistical questions about writing?
What are the craft questions that nag at you?
What questions about submitting and publishing your writing?
Every question we collect is the start of a collective quest. We won’t offer answers, per se, but we can share perspectives and scraps of accumulated wisdom with one another. And I’ll also be collecting these questions for future WITD Lit Salon columns like the ones I linked to above.
I am looking forward to this quest, and to visiting the places it will take us.
Love,
Jeannine
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