"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 a day. Why sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis G. Carroll
Everyone needs to stretch with the first effort in any attempt. Writers facing a blank screen or white page need to push the first line or two. Fingers reach and tickle the keys or the hand selects a pen to wriggle words across the page.
Why wait for a notion to arise? Ideas spout when we jump right in.
Ellen Gilchrist feels every writer faces two questions when he or she begins to write: can it be done and can I doit? She believes those questions precede all risk-taking.
Why ask those questions at all? They block an 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?
Consider the photograph above. Write for fifteen minutes about finding the fun with impossible things.
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