💚 Something forces you anyway

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Announcements:
In case you missed it: Nourish and honor your writerly soul this weekend.

Pause.

Close your eyes and rest for a few minutes. Sit in silence and solitude and stillness.

Prompt.

Read the James Baldwin quote below. Then look at the Federico Faruffini painting for a few minutes.

“When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know, what you don’t want to find out. But something forces you to anyway.” - James Baldwin

The Reader (Clara)
Federico Faruffini 1865 c.

Practice.

Take notes or journal in response to the quote and art above and/or the questions below:

—What are you trying to discover that you don’t know?

—What do you not want to know?

—Which ideas, topics, questions haunt you?

—Which books do you want to be surrounded by?

—What reading do you keep putting off?

Want More?
Read James Baldwin, The Art of Fiction No. 78

Charlotte Donlon

Writer, Spiritual Director, & Founder of Spiritual Direction for Writers

spiritualdirectionforwriters.com

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