Run with Your Creative Power

We tend to shrink from our creative power. I can be in the middle of a great writing binge, where I'm really in flow, and start thinking, "I need a cup of tea." It's all I can do to resist it, unless I am aware of what's happening. So I do these little negotiations with myself, kind of like what happens when I run and my body wants to stop. "Okay, if I can make it to that next turn, I'll rest." Then I get to the turn and do it again. "Okay, if I can make it to that tree..." etc., until I've forgotten about stopping and get to the end of the run.

It seems so easy on a run.

A Writer Gets Over Her Block

A writer friend emailed me the other day to say how she was doing, telling me about a trip to Montauk she took earlier in the year, and that she was ready for her next vacation. She had planned go to her annual writer's conference in Taos but canceled due to the wildfires going on there. Determined to use her vacation time to stay home and write, she said she was concerned she couldn't relax with her work routine on hold, and that she had been totally blocked and couldn't write.

She was doing yoga and meditation, watching movies and reading books to get inspired. She asked me for some tips on "getting the creative juices flowing."