Do you want to become a writer? Are your fingers itchy with the
impulse of telling your story?
Sometimes we know we want to write, it's our number one priority,
we feel it's what we are supposed to be doing.
Whether or not you have been able to transform your dreams into action
yet, learning how creative writing can be an healthy, curative input in your life will give you the motivation you need to commit to your passion.
Using creative writing as well as other artistic expressions to
improve the psychological and physical well-being is known as ART
THERAPY.
What is Art Therapy?
Art Therapy is a path of self awareness and internal growth.
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) considered creativity as a primary access lane
to the subconscious, just as dreams and verbal association.
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) believed in Universal, archaic
archetypes that derive from the collective unconscious.
This psychic
instinct is hidden inside each one of us and hands down the story of
humanity.
Being unconscious, the existence of these tales can only
be expressed through unspoken behavior, images, art, myths,
religions, or dreams.
Science proved that every human being is creative, in his own way. Since 1946
England, followed by USA, recognized Art Therapy as a beneficial input for hospitalized patient.
Art Therapy today
Naturopathy and psychosomatic medicine remind us that art can
nourish the spirit, can motivate a person to get better, grow up and
heal.
Arts can determine physiological changes in the organism: laughter therapy and clown therapy facilitate the process of self healing,
especially for disturbances caused by stress, immunity system,
cardiomyopathy and ictus.
Creative writing allows us to get to know ourselves, what is our perception of the
surrounding world and what perception the external environment has of us as part of it.
The journey of self
discovery that we complete through the written word allows us to detach
ourselves from any experience, examine it, explore other points of
view, create personal opinions, solve problems, communicate
intentions, compare ideas and develop a unique imagination.
Everyone can use creative writing. Everyone owns fantasy and
imagination. What matters is spontaneity and daring to share your
experience in a personal shape, free of preconditioned schemes.
Start the new year with some healing words, commit to your passion, and become your own hero!
Have a good novel!
To start the new year with the best intentions, I want to share with you one of my all times favorite poem:
Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round,
or listened to rain slapping the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight,
or gazed at the sun fading into the night?
You better slow down, don't dance so fast,
time is short, the music won't last.
Do you run through each day on the fly,
when you ask "How are you?", do you hear the reply?
When the day is done, do you lie in your bed,
with the next hundred chores running through your head?
You better slow down, don't dance so fast,
time is short, the music won't last.
Ever told your child, we'll do it tomorrow,
and in your haste, not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch, let a friendship die,
'cause you never had time to call and say hi?
You better slow down, don't dance so fast,
time is short, the music won't last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere,
you miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
it's like an unopened gift thrown away.
Life isn't a race, so take it slower,
hear the music before your song is over.
David L. Weatherford
There are dozens of reasons to open a blog.
A very good one is that posting is an excellent writing exercise and a unique laboratory for learning the craft.
Some writers use their blog to build an audience, some just wish to better their written communication skills through daily practice. The majority of people start a post without a clear idea of what they want to say and only afterwards choose a title. By the way, choosing the title can be more time consuming and nail biting than completing the whole post.
It's good advice to jot down a post first thing in the morning, just to warm up a bit, leaving longer and more complex tasks for later, when hopefully they will appear less scary and more approachable.
Even a short comment on a fellow writer post helps to ease the way towards the blank page awaiting to be filled with the famous 1000 words we set as a daily goal.
To those (like me) who want to write a book, but lack the courage to get started, the short, contained length of a blog post can help remind us that even "War and Peace" and "The Brother Karamazov" are nothing more than a sum of chapters.
Chapters come from paragraphs, paragraphs come from phrases, phrases come from words. Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevskyj did start from a single word to create their novels. They probably took notes on the subjects they meant to write about. They wrote short stories, a few chapters, then a first draft.
Write every day, be free: play with vocaboulary, mix the language, turn the task into a game of reinventing yourself. Write as an eminent professor presenting literary essays, set up a bohemian artist degrading the modern society.
If you let the words flow, you'll find it's easier than it seems.
Writing daily and freely will transform your writing into a richer and more versatile tool for you to express yourself and your stories.
Your fantasy will take you where your mind wanders, and sure enough you'll have a better day after enjoying a dress up party with yourself.
It's a way of loving yourself, spending time with your subconscious, knowing yourself better.
Why not trying it right now? Write freely, be yourself, or as whoever you wish to be (with) right now!
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