Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) Oct/Nov 2014 - Featuring Louise Hay | Page 91

In a more recent book, he painted and drew
multi-media pictures, cut them into irregular
shapes, and taped them into his book—
sometimes one, sometimes two per page.
When he accidentally added several pages
worth upside down, we discovered that
reading the book involved several partial
rotations while reading.
I find the books intriguing and artistic—such
an organic, spontaneous process to them as
he paints, draws, cuts, reorganizes, pastes.
It seems he’s done with pictures what a
writer does with life—we find these bits and
pieces, slice them away from their original
context, reassemble, and create something
new and surprising.
Surely he hadn’t known exactly what his book
would look like. He’s fully present, absorbed,
taken over by his creative process. He’s
fearless. Bold. He “writes” his book in bits,
in the moment, with spontaneity, joy, and a
spirit of experimentation. He’s not worried
about going beyond his comfort zone:

• What if I painted something?
• What if I cut it up?
• What if I put it together with this?
• Placed them here…and here?

writing classes all the time. When we write
only from what we know, it falls flat. Only
when we meander, paint, cut out the pieces,
rearrange, do we hit upon the delicious
discoveries and bring our writing to life. It
takes a sense of fearlessness to wander
into uncharted territory when you’re writing,
but it’s the only way to write.
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“Courage
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Brene B
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It’s always struck me that our best writing
comes from the unpredictable moments of
unearthing—the part we didn’t know when
we began writing. In fact, I teach this in my

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that read like the old Sesame Street
alphabet song where Big Bird sounds out the
alphabet into one consonant-rich 26-letterword. Luke’s books were something like five
to eight pages of “LKSDOIENjdosjeingsooej
seonkngsojdoj KJDSOJOJF.”