Not all Writers Look Alike; and Neither do the Writing Resources We Need
SOMETIMES, WE’RE MUTE, we writers. 
Sometimes, we drift, dream, words floating above us, like sunset clouds in fantastical shifting shapes—now a ship, now a sheep, now a swan and his wife. Sometimes, it’s twilight, and we’re quiet, content. Sometimes, we choose not to cast our nets to capture those words, glittering like so many stars in the broad night sky of our imagination.
My writer friend and co-author Tia Levings signs off emails with this quote:
But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, for they may think their dreams into reality with open eyes. —T.E. Lawrence
So, yes, sometimes, it’s enough to read what’s in our own hearts, and let the words build castles and angels and half-memories, undisturbed. Sometimes, we have no need to chase them and jar them, like fireflies, but, instead, simply watch the words flicker into tiny, brief constellations that mean just what they mean to themselves, while we allow them—and ourselves—to be mysteries that remain unsolved. At least for now.
These may be times you search for other writing resources – to read fairy tales or peek into other writers’ journals to see how they dream and drift on the page. Here are some stories and pages that may flutter beside your own quiet heart right now.
Reading resources for dreaming writers
A GIRL GOES INTO A FOREST, short stories by Peg Alford Pursell
MAGICKAL FAERYTALES: An Enchanted Collection of Retold Tales, by Lucy Cavendish (edited by me!)
SPILLING OPEN, a visual journal by Sabrina Ward Harrison
THE DIARY OF FRIDA KAHLO, by Frida Kahlo
Writing coach
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The cloud painting, above, is from my art journal—where I dream in color and shape and brushstrokes … and sometimes in words.
