Rewild Your Writing: Planting Seeds
Week 3: Ritual, routine, and returning, again and again to our practice
Welcome back to Rewild Your Writing, a creative container and co-writing space for connecting with landscapes, places, and the more-than-human world. This week, we will explore carving out space to write, create, and be.
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Planting Seeds
(Making space to write)
I’m writing this from bed. The thrum of people laughing and talking in the pub at the back of my home drifts through the open window. I’m under the covers, in my dressing gown. It’s 8.43pm. I’m stealing moments from my day to carve words onto the page (keypad). Perhaps not the most romantic, but it’s real. Making space to write doesn’t have to look beautiful or put together (although it can); it can be messy, in your pj’s, sipping tea (always a hot beverage for me) while listening to people out drinking on a Friday night.
There’s no right or wrong way to cultivate the practice of writing or tending our creative world. We simply plant the seeds, water them, and watch them grow.
I’m sure you’ve heard the analogy before: that our creativity is like a garden, it needs to be tended to consistently, for life to grow. This nature-based metaphor is used with reason. We can learn so much from the more-than-human worlds about our capacities and capabilities to create. We look to the rhythms of nature to see our creative cycles mirrored back to us. When we get down to the root of things, we can see that we are just a part of this wider, ecological web. For this reason, we should see our creativity in the same way.
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