Write Like A Child Running Down A Hill
Lit Salon on the question of fear and art & the trembling surrender necessary for the risk of opening ourselves to Being & why that's both surprisingly fun and potentially heartbreaking
I love the topic of art and fear very much—so much that I expounded on it in a Voice Memo with
, which can be found here (Voice Memos, Video Notes, and Live Zoom Salons are bonus content for founding members; thank you thank you thank you for making this place possible!).Dear Jeannine,
I want to comment on something you wrote in Week 2 of the Story Challenge. You said:
Writing fiction is simply scary. Why? Not in spite of the fact, but because of the fact that it’s playful. Fiction is uncontrolled. Anything can happen—literally anything. Writing fiction is the opposite of coloring in a coloring book. Writing fiction is building whole worlds. Writing fiction is shaping characters from the clay of your imagination. Writing fiction is unleashing your imagination and supercharging in ways that can let it loose in your real life! Writing fiction is making things happen on the page (and, again, by extension, also in your life). Writing fiction involves creating problems—and solving them, or …