Our connection to nature is connection to purpose. Life’s distractions can keep us from pausing to reflect on creation and its emotional and psychological effects on us. A blue heron recently reminded me to pay attention to what truly matters.
Author: Emma Kathryn Harris
Benefits of writing your draft from the middle
Trying to create an inspiring opening to our article or story is one of the hardest, though most important, tasks we have to fulfill. What will help us focus and write introductions with amazing sentence structure and appealing copy? Start writing from the middle.
Returning to nature
Spending time outdoors, among the birds and flowers and sunshine, heal us physically and mentally. We become more creative and productive because we step out of our own world and into a larger perspective.
For the love of reading
As writers, it is important to be voracious readers. Reading a variety of genres — fiction, nonfiction, articles, essays, poetry — helps us shape our voice, skill and view of the world.
Read to feed your creative mind
Suffer from blank page syndrome? Reading helps us refocus, provides writing prompts from where we least expect them, and energizes us to plow ahead with our writing.
Weeding our garden is like editing
Weeding our gardens is an ongoing chore, much like editing our work. We want our writing to be beautiful too, which forces us to kill our darlings in our stories.