Incantation for Writing
After I sit down to write, but before my fingers type the first word, I say an incantation to focus my mind and spirit on the creative act before me.
Incantation for Writing
Today, I write to fill the blank pages
I write to meet the unfamiliar parts of myself
I write to comfort the disturbed, and to disturb the comfortable
Today, I write to fill the blank pages
I shamelessly stole this idea from Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art. The “disturb the comfortable” line is not mine, and its origin is subject to debate.
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