Writerly Play Kit: 009
Courage, Dear Heart
WP Kit 009
Courage, Dear Heart
Well-chosen words can urge our courage onward. Words have the power to remind us we are loved, or that we’re seen and heard. For me, these words from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader echo with love and encouragement.
This month, even though I’m bubbling with excitement about the Creative Lift podcast, I’ve needed a frequent reminder to take heart. Finishing projects can be a challenge, and finishing projects that touch that inner core, the place where our emotions are real and where we can’t simply shrug and be cool … the face is, we care. A lot.
As we celebrate the launch of the podcast, I also want to celebrate what I’ve learned in the process. Finding my way to launching Creative Lift wasn’t about technical details such as microphones or sound quality. The real work was tapping into my voice on a deeper level. Here’s what I learned: Understanding our own voice is often a result of attentive listening to others. When we find others who are similar to us, but just slightly different, we begin to understand: OH! Here is the space I’m meant to fill. Here is the contribution I’m designed to make.
My hope for you is that you continue to find those people who illuminate your way, too, the ones whose voices ring in harmony with yours and help you hear your own work even more fully. As you continue creating and sharing your work, you’re giving the world the gift of your voice, but you’re also giving them the gift of their own voices, heard more fully because you’ve dared to share. May we all continue to take heart, to share courageously, and to cheer one another on as we follow our curiosity onward. What might you create next, dear heart? 💕
Each Writerly Play Kit is designed to fuel creative momentum. In this issue, we’ll consider your you-shaped space. Note the book flight, and especially the Five Whys reflection activity, which is one of my favorite Writerly Play tools yet. I hope you love it, too!
follow your curiosity
A BOOK FLIGHT
FIND YOUR YOU-ShAPED SPACE
In this book flight, savor three titles that together, are a powerful reminder that there’s only one you. By viewing yourself in relation to others, you gain perspective on the unique qualities that make your voice your own..
“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.”
-Neil Gaiman
peek through an alternate lens
YOU’re invited: Creative Lift
Drumroll, please … Creative Lift, the Writerly Play podcast, is HERE!!
If you’re a writer, an artist, a creative thinker, who takes your work, your practice and your growth seriously enough to dare to play your way to the page, this podcast is for you.
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