Seeds

SEEDS - the inner desire to write

“I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.”

"Ray Bradbury

     One of the most important aspects of writing is the desire of it. Not everyone can feel it, and specially not everyone has ideas or emotions to share. This is the seed of the plant, just the start of the new life. Something is prepared to grow, just asking for the proper time and place. As we see from the quote of the great writer Ray Bradbury, the ideas are our inner alarm clock, they make us awake, and standing in front of our writing desks, computer and so on…We need this simple fire, in order to know ourselves. The first thing about that “seeds” is realizing them and accepting them. When you have new idea, ready to be poured out, so do that as soon as possible. The delay of that special moment is critical, and your muse could be gone. Actually I have to note here, that not every “desire” to write is equal to inspiration in this high sense, and maybe opposite is also truth. But desire is the essence, even if your muse is still silent. But with the desire comes also the inspiration, which is its stage, means a forming of the emotion, feeling and its connection with our true mind. This is very clear and conscious process.

So there is no meaning of the seed itself, if its not put into the proper soil, the same as just a pure “desire” to write is meaningless without the inspiration, and the act of writing, implementation. The desire is just the starting point, it leads us to the process and to finalization. So be aware always, when you have the desire, to put down your basic ideas for what you`ll write, self-view, emotion, feeling, a story, a collage… There are so many forms of expressing your ideas. We talk here about the creative writing specially.

When you create the suitable surroundings, you`ll also open the way to the “inspiration”.  If you feel lost on the way to creative writing, there are some simple suggestions that will help you to go on the way of light:

Read poems, which you like and which you find inspiring;

read poems of unknown poets, and writings which are close to you;

don`t read texts, you cant understand!

listen to the nice music, which can open your senses for any positive result;

try to write a little strophe or a line with some basic idea in it, it may lead to more!

read a book from your childhood which was your favorite;

read your texts/ poems, which other like most;

read your texts/ poems, which you like most;

    These are very few of my suggestions, even though this process is very personal and everyone should discover it for himself. The writing mostly is process, connected with work more than with inspiration. 

nina n. *