Write Anything

Date: Jan 19, 2005
From: MJS
To: JB


Sue Monk Kidd has only the one fiction book, Secret
Life of Bees. All the others are reflective, “Dance of
the Dissident Daughter” being best known in that line.
Prior to that she was in turmoil, as her husband was a
Minister, now in private counseling practice. I read that
book twice, and it really impacted me. I stopped going
to church for a while, to get some objectivity about
why I was going to church.

Sure you should write something! It gets better as you do it.

I read a piece by Norman Mailer and another by a woman
author, both saying essentially the same thing: first
you write your own stories. That sort of clears you
for other efforts. Good therapy too, I bet. Sam Keen
(“Hymns to Unknown God”) counsels us to write our
autobiography, our soul journey record. I find I
learn a lot about myself when I try to put it into
words. Some of the thoughts sort of harden, and
others just get thrown out forever. Anyway, on
account of Keen I collected my personal writings
together and the stories of "past lives" which may be
real in the sense of emotions but not facts, and that
leaves me free for flights of fancy... maybe. I was
terrible at any kind of fiction in school. I think that
was because I needed to examine my present reality
first, just like Keen recommended. Nothing really terrible
happened at all during my youth, except what happens to most people as
we go through periods of undeveloped self esteem, and
one does not really want to go there. Well, some
people wallow in those places. But I don't, being a
Pollyanna, I wanted to stay on the sunny side of
things, and therefore needed to take a good look to
get the value out of every experience of life.

So write anything. Unfortunately I find that having
set that purpose, the Spirit wakes me at all hours
with nudges to write it down. If I ignore it, I am
kept awake, or I forget that great moment. So I am
doing a lot of insomniac writing.





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