Waiting for words
It seems the process of writing is a lot more than the getting down of words on paper. Or the screen as the case often is. For me the whole process starts with an idea, or a beginnings of an idea really.
Sometimes that beginning is in response to an emotion, event, place. Sometimes a person. Then there are the times it is just a feeling. Whatever it is, the words don’t always come at the beginning. There is a need to sit, metaphorically speaking. A need to let thoughts and feelings mull.
Sometimes I have the perfect ending. I begin with that and work my way backwards. I know what I want to say, I just don’t know the exact words I need to use to get to that last sentence. It is a bit chipping away, a bit adding and subtracting of words.
There are too, those days where the words just come. Where a determined need for them to out means fast typing and editing. Days when the message is perhaps more important than the craft.
Then there are the words that just won’t come. That will not be hurried along. They wait, jumbled, refusing to out until they are ready. These are the ones I really want. These are the words I wait for.
These are the words I listen for.
And if you listen, you may hear them too.
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I currently have no words. Not a one. Hope you hear the words you want. X
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Naomi Reply:
March 13th, 2013 at 9:43 pm
They will come back when they are ready x
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I wait and wait and wait for those kinds of words. Sometimes, months. I get what you mean.
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Naomi Reply:
March 13th, 2013 at 9:43 pm
Sometimes I almost catch them, I know they are there. One day they will come.
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Hi beautiful.
This is the reason why my blogging is so sporadic. I can’t and won’t force it to get a post out – otherwise it just feels like work. xx
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Naomi Reply:
March 13th, 2013 at 10:54 pm
Words should be love, not work, and yours are. x
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Sometimes I need calm for the words to come. For them to make their way into order in my mind before they are ready to come out. And for the record, your words are beautiful.
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Naomi Reply:
March 17th, 2013 at 7:11 pm
Calm is so good for writing, but so, so hard to get isn’t it.
And thank you x
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One of my bigger regrets is that when the words did come about three years ago and I didn’t respect them (and they didn’t revisit!) It’s happened twice. I won’t make it a third.
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Naomi Reply:
March 17th, 2013 at 7:10 pm
I know that feeling well. I’m hoping to not ignore again.
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