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Writing is being at home. Be at home in your writing. Feel at home. Be in your home. Being at home is being comfortable when you write. It allows you to relax into, walk with, own what you have to say. Feeling at home allows you to feel right with, secure in, a belonging to what you have to say. Being in your home means you have a place to go to write. It may be the place where you work or live or a place that you travel to in your mind--but you can step into that place. You can return to it again and again. A room of one's own is important, but to really write, we need to be at home. Writing arises from solid earth. Home is feeling grounded, connected and calm. Home is really a place--a secure place, a place to take risk, a place to rest or let down. Home base, touchstone, secure attachment are all aspects of home. Home is the place--psychological or physical--where our writing can begin, develop and end. Home provides foundation. Home provides structure. When we are not a home, we wander with our feet and in our hearts and heads. At home, we don't roam. We sit attentively in our chairs and write. |
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