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X Marks The Spot: Finding the Treasures In Your Writing
| January 6, 2011 | Posted by JerriCook under Freewriting, Prompts, The Writing Process, Writer's Block |
Your writing is a map to new treasures
In the documentary, What the Bleep Do We Know?, it’s postured that the Indians didn’t comprehend what the ships of the first settlers were because they couldn’t connect the image with any experience or prior thought. The ships were so alien in nature that they were effectively invisible. More succinctly put: they didn’t see what they weren’t looking for. Who knows if the story about the Indians not “seeing” the first sails of the first pilgrims arriving in the New World is true? It doesn’t matter. What matters is there’s a gem here for writers, and I promise you, where’s there’s one gem, there are troves more.
We all have a shared experience—every one of us has searched for something that was right under our nose, but the mental image we had of the object and what it actually looked like weren’t connected. Once we realized this and made the mental connection, we were able to quickly locate whatever it was we were searching for. When you write, you might think you know what you’re looking for, but keep an eye open for some sparkling, seemingly quirky idea that leads you off on a tangent. Your writing is a map and that tangent connects to a treasure that sits unrecognized right in front of you. (more…)
Your writing is a map to new treasures
In the documentary, What the Bleep Do We Know?, it’s postured that the Indians didn’t comprehend what the ships of the first settlers were because they couldn’t connect the image with any experience or prior thought. The ships were so alien in nature that they were effectively invisible. More succinctly put: they didn’t see what they weren’t looking for. Who knows if the story about the Indians not “seeing” the first sails of the first pilgrims arriving in the New World is true? It doesn’t matter. What matters is there’s a gem here for writers, and I promise you, where’s there’s one gem, there are troves more.
We all have a shared experience—every one of us has searched for something that was right under our nose, but the mental image we had of the object and what it actually looked like weren’t connected. Once we realized this and made the mental connection, we were able to quickly locate whatever it was we were searching for. When you write, you might think you know what you’re looking for, but keep an eye open for some sparkling, seemingly quirky idea that leads you off on a tangent. Your writing is a map and that tangent connects to a treasure that sits unrecognized right in front of you. (more…)
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