Creative Writing

At work I volunteered to write up our group's insights on a regular basis and God only knows why I volunteered for it. The team was disjoint then and full of tensions. When I was done writing someone wanted me to change an idea and the next person told me exactly the opposite. It was a miserable period but somehow I persevered. After a year or two the comments became less critical and much more constructive. Magic began to happen, and the remarks of the one colleague were very complementary to the ones of the other. It was as if the team thought in unity without knowing it. These days are long gone, today, nobody comments on my work, so whatever magic takes place has to happen in my brain instead. But that's ok too, because that's the perfect spot for magic to happen.

I see very little difference between creative writing and painting. A painter starts at a certain spot on the canvass with a particular idea and a favored color combination and from there on the painting takes over. Exactly the same is true when I write. I never exactly know where an idea takes me. The idea writes itself. But do you know what the most fun in my creative process is? It is you! For a while now I have observed that the blog notes visitors frequent on a particular day are often connected to the thoughts I am having for a new note or an chapter in my book that I am working on. It is the Tao that does the writing. How cool is that!