The Writing Hour....

““Perhaps it is just as well to be rash and foolish for a while. If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself ‘why” afterward than before. Anyway, the force of somewhere in space which commands you to write in the first place, gives you no choice. You take up the pen when you are told, and write what is commanded. There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.”
– Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Ro”

I’ve just started joining The Writers’ Hour set up by The London Writers’ Salon.

It’s so simple. Yet so effective. A zoom call with a group of people wanting to start their day with an hour’s writing. There’s a welcome, someone reads some Words of Wisdom (WOW) like today’s quote above and we lift our mugs to cheer and get to work. On anything. Many join to sit down and write their Morning Pages from Julia Cameron’s book, The Artist’s Way (which is what I did this morning). You get out whatever is on your mind out onto paper; you dump, unload and say goodbye to it into the ether. Very cathartic and so Julia Cameron says the entry point into many a creative masterpiece.

Others on the Writing Hour are working on short stories, editing novels, penning poems, crafting emails, conjuring up blog posts the list goes on…but there’s a lovely sense of comaraderie….everyone sitting in their cosy homes with their cups of tea or coffee and just writing. Its a genius idea that I hope to try and commit to at least 3 times a week.

So reflecting back on today’s WOW: let’s not be too serious in this life, let’s be curious, playful and even rash and foolish at times.

Happy Writing.