Its about six o’clock and Geneva has prepared a nice meal for her friends to get together and talk about writing. The doorbell rings as she takes the food out of the oven and places it on the table and answers the door. In comes Anne, Carolyn and Ray.
Geneva: come in come in and lets eat and have a talk
They all walk to the dining room and take a seat and make their plates.
Geneva: well I am so stuck I don’t know what to write about for this essay I have coming up and its like every time I sit down to write something I either don’t know what to say or something else pops up that I have to do.
Anne: very few writers really know what they are doing until they’ve done it.
Carolyn: writing is like meditation or going into an ESP trance, or prayer like dreaming. You are tapping into your unconscious to be fully conscious and alert…
Ray: you stumble into it mostly. You don’t know what you’re doing and suddenly, it’s done. You don’t set out to reform a certain kind of writing. It evolves out of your own life and night scares.
Geneva: okay so basically I have to write and things come to me as I go? But what if it doesn’t make sense
Anne: writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong.
Geneva: okay I get it thank you. Who wants dessert!!!!
They all walk to the dining room and take a seat and make their plates.
Geneva: well I am so stuck I don’t know what to write about for this essay I have coming up and its like every time I sit down to write something I either don’t know what to say or something else pops up that I have to do.
Anne: very few writers really know what they are doing until they’ve done it.
Carolyn: writing is like meditation or going into an ESP trance, or prayer like dreaming. You are tapping into your unconscious to be fully conscious and alert…
Ray: you stumble into it mostly. You don’t know what you’re doing and suddenly, it’s done. You don’t set out to reform a certain kind of writing. It evolves out of your own life and night scares.
Geneva: okay so basically I have to write and things come to me as I go? But what if it doesn’t make sense
Anne: writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong.
Geneva: okay I get it thank you. Who wants dessert!!!!