by M. J. Joachim

Created on: January 11, 2010

Many people will tell you that if you want to be a writer, you need to write every day.  It keeps the wheels in your mind moving, and prevents writer’s block from setting in.  However, if you consistently drain the source of information without ever replenishing it, you may as well plan on retiring early.  Few people are born with the stamina to produce well written documents, articles, stories, or any other form of writing without feeding their spirits and energizing their bodies from time to time.

It can be said that true writers are abstract thinkers.  They are the artists of the literary world, and they see things in ways that most people will never fully understand.  Verbally, many of them are challenged.  For it is only when they sit at their keyboards, after some enticing adventure, that they will clearly be able to reveal the tantalizing sensations taking place in their hearts. 

Then, through their works, you will see colors that never existed before, and cannot be adequately described in polite and pleasant conversation.  For it is through adventure, solitude, and marveling at creation unveiling itself around them, that writers are able to inhale the essence of all that is and ever will be.  These are the things writers thrive on never knowing when the opportunity presented, will become the word that needs to be expressed for all to read.

A casual get together with a friend is enough to give any good writer new material to work with.  It might be the atmosphere that triggers new emotions, or the company that nudges past events.  Perhaps the food takes on new meaning, symbolizing energy, trial, or strength.  Whatever it is, you can be certain that the writer’s work will distance itself from the source as a professional courtesy, only using the inspiration of the moment to unveil a story that needs to be told from his heart.

And so it is that writers must infuse their souls, not only with stimulus from the outside world, but also with creative impulses from within.  They must experience, on a much deeper, sensory level, all that their lives are composed of, reiterating it for the audience destined to be enraptured by their tales.  At times this means writers must withdraw from the constant exercise of expressing themselves at their keyboards every day.  In seeking to diminish the impulsive brain chatter, incessantly clamoring their full attention, they determine to shut out the noise of the world, and tune into the language of their souls.

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