Yesterday I saw an eagle from my window. Close up, vivid and lots more, but that’s all I’m going to say because I want to write about it this week instead of talk about it now. Isn’t that funny? Substack is such an intimate space, when I write here it’s more like chatting with you. The actual writing can arrive with more clarity and sound nice and fresh. Crisp like a carrot. A carrot dipped in hot honey hummus. You and I are just two carrots connecting.
Writing tip: when you have a story or even a juicy passage you want to write, do not tell a soul! It will be so tempting because you are a juicy storyteller and people are eager for good stories. Think of it as an exhalation— and once you breathe it out once the original energy is gone. I mean that’s how it is for me. The desire to tell something is powerful. I hardly choose what I save for the page but this eagle is one to save.
As for your own window. ..
Set a timer for five minutes and write what you see out there. For those on windowless spaces, wrote what you see on your room from where you sit. Keep writing even if you keep seeing the exact same thing.
Then….set the timer for five minutes…and write what you wish you could see.
There! You’ve changed your view!
Now go write that thing you’ve been saving to tell the page. That special story that wants to be written before or so spoken. Take five minutes— or why not ten? Go, baby, go!
