"There is no use trying," said Alice, "one can't believe impossible things."
"I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. "When I was your age I always did it for half an hour a day. Why sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." From Alice in Wonderland by Lewis G. Carroll
Every writer facing the blank screen or white page needs to stretch in that first effort. Fingers reach and tickle the keys or the hand selects a pen to send words across the page. Why wait for a notion to arise? Ideas sprout when we jump right in.
Ellen Gilchrist feels every writer faces two questions in the beginning: can it be done and can I do it? She believes those questions precede all risk-taking.
I suggest - Why ask those questions at all? They get in the way of the adventure that awaits!
Imagine an Armed Patrol of blue daisies protecting your writing skills, encouraging creativity and word flow. Now, there's nothing to fear. Write in and out of an image that feels perplexing.
If the daisies begin to twirl and whirl off their stems, they will arrange themselves at your writing pad or keyboard. Each settles right in, does a dance or jabbers with a smile and provides whispers and mysteries. Will you follow along?
Creative Write: Consider the photograph above. Write for fifteen minutes about impossible things.
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