"People don't like to talk about it."
“People don’t like to talk about it.” It was almost like a triple-dog-dare… I dare you to talk about it! “People don’t like to talk about it.” This was the writing prompt I was recently given from a practice I’m engaged in called “Wild Writing.” The practice is quite simple – writing coach Laurie Wagner sends out three short videos per week, reads us a poem twice, gives us a few “jump off" lines, and has us write “as quickly and as poorly as possible” for 15 minutes. The idea is to just write and block out the perfectionistic voice in our heads that tells us we have to “get it right.” With some practice, it gets easier to tune out that voice. That makes room for what our “creative unconscious” is trying to tell us, and then write that down. (Side note: If you’d like learn more, or to give this practice a try yourself, go to www.27powers.org ). The power is in the telling of the true stories. Some stories are easy to share; others require a little more cour