“Perhaps the earth can teach us, as when everything seems dead and later proves to be alive.”
Pablo Neruda
Thank you for this one. Spidey. It resonates, this week, especially.
The last few months, I have been feeling a part of me shrivel away, as the momentum of the current situation around the world takes over everything.
Exhaustion set in. All I could do was wake, work, feed family, sleep.
And repeat.
There was no room for my creativity. No matter how much I tried, I couldn’t magic words on a screen. Sure, I wrote my Spidey posts, and my catch ups for the Mondays, but that was it. No real creativity needed.
Countless times, I have opened up a blank post, thinking I would take part in one of the weekly challenges I enjoyed taking part in on the blog, but even with the most inspiring prompts, nothing came.
I deleted the posts.
I had started to learn lettering, and found it so therapeutic, but again, lack of time and energy zapped the will, or ability, to start any projects.
But this week, something began to emerge from within.
Like a shoot, finally ready to burst through the ground, or a bud beginning to open, my imagination began to fire up.
Ideas for different blog posts came to the forefront. I have thoughts about the book two WIP that want to be captured on screen. I actively wanted to take part in a fiction challenge.
And so, finally, on Friday, I wrote my first piece of flash fiction for around six months, and it felt good.
I’m still tired, don’t get me wrong. Seriously, this week, apart from one evening, I have fallen asleep for at least half an hour, and woken up, startled.
But I want to write.
And I will.
I feel my creative well has begun to fill, and though for many reasons, I am not tired, creatively, I am rejuvenated.
I hope you are ready for the posts that are sure to come, and the hope that the WIP will begin to take shape again, in the near future!
So… tell me, when was the last time you felt rejuvenated?
Have a peaceful Sunday Peeps. And enjoy your week!
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