{"id":1072,"date":"2014-08-18T09:20:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T15:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2014-08-18T09:20:45","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T15:20:45","slug":"chiseling-the-marble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/?p=1072","title":{"rendered":"Chiseling the Marble"},"content":{"rendered":"

All of my focus the last few weeks has been on the non-writing aspects of my life. Health issues, life issues, children issues are in the forefront and must be dealt with. At times like this, I feel it necessary to draw back from daily writing and networking on social media. I draw into myself a little, too. There is so much to think about, do, and simply feel.<\/em> When things return to something a little closer to normal, I know I’ll resume my habit of settling myself every morning in my writing room. I’ll drink my coffee and look out my window awhile. I’ll take pen in hand and begin again. That is simply the nature of life and living. Beginning again. Over and over.<\/p>\n

\"Still-Writing-by-Dani-Shapiro\"<\/a>However, even when I’m not writing, I’m reading and thinking about writing. Right now I’m reading “Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life” by Dani Shapiro. It’s marvelous. It reminds me quite a bit of Natalie Goldberg’s gently inspiring “Writing Down the Bones” (I have a story about that book and what it means to me that I’ll blog about someday). There are so many quotable passages in this book, but I’ll share just this one that really resonated with me this morning:<\/p>\n

“Don’t think too much. There’ll be time to think later. Analysis won’t help. You’re chiseling now. You’re passing your hands over the wood. Now the page is no longer blank. There’s something there. It isn’t your business yet to know whether it’s going to be prize-worthy someday, or whether it will gather dust in a drawer. Now you’ve carved the tree. You’ve chiseled the marble. You’ve begun.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So go and chisel something today. For me. I promise I’ll be back to join you soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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