Good Writing Takes Time
and the link to Wednesday's Writing Room
This is the season of waiting for green shoots to make their way to the surface of the ground, for the swollen buds to open and for petals to unfurl. It is a time of waiting in expectation for new life to emerge from the dark and fallow ground of winter. (some of you may already be fully in bloom, but I suspect you had your time of waiting also).
Writing is like waiting for spring and growth in the garden and woods. We wait for ideas, for the best words to convey what we mean. We might write and wait for the answer to be revealed as to why this topic has gripped us. We submit our work and wait for a “yes” or a “no”. We may need to put our writing on hold for a season and wait until life settles.
Whatever your waiting looks like right now, I hope you will embrace it. Like the signs in some restaurants that warn us good food takes time, so it is with our writing. When we take time and allow ideas to percolate, for nuances to surface, to edit and revise we will end up with writing that has matured and come into full bloom. Waiting also prevents us from slipping into using volunteer words as R.F. Kuang explains in the IG story I’ve attached below.
We need not fret, as we work and wait, our writing will mature and emerge at just the right time.
WORKSHOPPING IN COMMUNITY
On the first zoom call of the month for those who wish to participate you will have the opportunity to have other eyes on your writing project. The final ½ hour of the call will be dedicated to workshopping submitted material. Submit up to 500 words by the Friday prior to the first call of the month to sue@suefulmore.com and I will distribute to other members wanting to join in. If you submit, you will be included in the call. If you do not wish to submit some of your work, but want to join in the discussion, just send me an email to let me know. Submissions will be sent via email to participants ahead of the call. You will be expected to pre-read the material before the call. Follow the guidelines listed here.
This is an experiment! please be patient as we figure this out– we don’t know how long this will take and how many submissions we can get to in one session. We may add a bit of extra time to those meetings.
The Writer’s Room will be open on Wednesday for those who are available. Join us if you have time. This is the perfect time to research, ponder new projects, write, or edit whatever is on your heart.
Join Us for The Writer’s Refuge Writing Room
Every Wednesday
2:00-3:30 Eastern
1:00-2:30 Central
12:00-1:30 Mountain
11:00-12:30 Pacific
RESOURCES
Why Writing should be Hard - an instagram story by RF Kuang.
This post by Joshua Luke Smith on “reminders to create when it feels like a waste”. I found this very inspirational and I want to dig into his ideas further.
Happy reading and writing friends,
such a good reminder, friend. thank you for sharing this. i too often forget that there is purpose in the hard work of waiting, both in writing and in life.