Friday, March 30, 2007

nine months since graduation?!? (writing as pregnancy)

I could never be at peace again till I had written ... it burned me from within. It quickened; I was with book, as a woman is with child. --C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

It sounds like a funny claim, doesn’t it? (Especially as I have never been pregnant, and arguably don’t have a clue as to what I’m talking about.) But writing does feel like a kind of pregnancy. I need to take enormous care of myself, body and mind alike, in order to produce something healthy and whole. I feel like I do everything for two reasons, for me and the book. I’m “eating for two,” as I’ve heard so many mothers say. I’m reading for two, I’m studying for two, I’m meeting new people for two.

You just never know what inspiration could be around the corner, in a chance paragraph, or an odd snatch of conversation.

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Posted by Jenn Langefeld on 03/30 at 10:19 PM
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