Word After Word

We practice what’s easiest for us, my yoga teacher said in class last night. Not always what needs practice.

I think about writing, and how I generate new scenes, scenes, scenes, scenes. Love to write scenes. I like to make pieces. What I need to practice, what is hard for me: wholes. Sequences. Brilliant summary, external action reflecting internal action, the townscape reflecting the interior of the life within, and all this a seamless whole. I need to practice tightening scenes, the hook, the make-point moment, the button.

But it’s so fun to generate and much harder to tend.

(Most gardeners do this, too. Easy to practice New Planting: go to Jonkers and buy three new astilbe. Shiny and new. All filled with their astilbe possibilities. But what is needed is attention to everything already in the garden, the rampant ivy, a great clearing. Harder to practice.)

Watch for an episode, hosted by Leeza Gibbons, on face blindness in September…..more information soon.