I had the great privilege of spending this weekend in the Twin Cities at the APIA Spoken Word and Poetry Summit. Rather than gush about how on top of everything the organizers were, or how dope the people who shared were, or how in awe I am of the company we kept, I’m trying to break this down into carefully crafted reflections. Hopefully, this will help the vast majority of you who did not attend grab a little piece of the magic.
On Saturday, I sat in on David Mura’s (!) workshop where he talked about moving from poetry to memoir and fiction writing. His big take away was this: If you want to get past writer’s block, lower your standards. It doesn’t matter what you write, just start writing.
It’s especially true for blogging. If I stop posting on a regular basis, I never want to start again. And if I write crappy posts for a week, the next week no one can see them because they get buried behind the next week’s posts.
amen to that. very true. this brings me back to the sermon you missed and the quote from a.w. tozer, “pray until you pray.” it feels the same for expository writing, though some might argue that they feel more comfortable writing “perfect” prose rather than writing first and then writing more later. oh! and i’ve three posts now.