Welcome to the Whimsical Word!

Welcome to the Whimsical Word—a place where you don’t have to know what you’re doing when you write, in fact it’s better if you don’t.

To be whimsical is to change, to be unpredictable, and full of whims, or “sudden ideas or turns of the mind.”

Have you ever written something and as soon as it comes out, it’s not what you meant or thought it would be at all?

Instead, it’s a not quite, a not exactly, an almost?

So you switch gears and head off in another direction because you’re looking to land on the “right” thing, the thing that will most accurately reflect what it is you really mean to express?

And then, all of a sudden, you land upon a string of words that is miraculous. It’s as if the words were put there by a divine, unseen hand, and you got to be the one through which they arrived, and it feels amazing!

Yes? Sound familiar?  Congratulations! That means you are a writer, and not only that, you are a seeker of truth. If you weren’t you’d be satisfied with the first thing that comes out and move on. Perhaps you wouldn’t even feel the urge to write at all.

This dance of twisting and swooping, lifting and drooping, knowing and searching and then arriving at a less glamorous place until you go on and stumble into something amazing, IS the journey of the writer.

To be a writer is to not fully know what you are doing or where you are going, but to do it anyway because you are pulled by something that makes your heart swell and ache for a way to name it.

This is what the Write In Power community is about. It’s what I’m about and I haven’t really taken the opportunity to express that to you in the ways that I would like.

For quite some time, I’ve wanted to do a regular newsletter so I can share writing, stories and insights about living a writing life, questions and prompts to get you to (or deeper into) the pages of your own text, and anything else that tickles my fancy (and presumably yours). And I just haven’t done it.

This is for the same reasons that you likely don’t write—life is just crazy busy and wandering around on a blank page with words, not sure where you are going, is just a luxury, indulgence, or deficiency you can’t quite justify (or so the thinking goes).

And then there’s the fear of the unknown and the belief that you have to be brilliant, perfect, and have it all figured out in order for it (and thus you) to be worthy, or more importantly than that, BRILLIANT.

Well the truth is that’s a bunch of hoey-honky-bloey-blonky bullwhacky!

The truth is you are already brilliant. You just have to begin.

You never know where each day or each word will lead you. The only thing you really need to know is your desire to write, and then you can cultivate an intimate, sometimes hazardous, and liberating relationship with the unknown.

It’s fun. It’s scary. It’s unpredictable. It changes. It’s full of sudden ideas or turns of the mind.  And it’s where precious, miraculous, magical moments of truth and aliveness are found.

The main things that my clients want are—focus and structure—to “know” “know” “know” the end and exactly how they are going to get there before they’ve even begun.

The thing is, you don’t have to write a whole blog or an article at once, you don’t have to know what your book is about, or what the first or last chapter is, you don’t have to be published, and you don’t even have to call yourself a “writer.”

You just have to begin. All you need to do is take one step closer to the elegant longing of your heart to express something that wants to be expressed.

The continuity is your joy! Even when it’s hard.

I guarantee that you’ll really start to love the whimsical, whacky, scary, often harry, swooping, sometimes drooping work of writing—creating—of making the unknown known, more than you resist it. That’s what it means to be in flow. And you will create something that is even more brilliant, truthful, or powerful than you thought possible.

If you don’t know what you are doing, but you are ready to commit to doing it nonetheless so you can experience the power that comes with being a Creator and making yourself and your passion a priority, let’s talk.

For the month of March, I’m offering complimentary Writer’s Breakthrough sessions. This is the last time I’ll be offering these for free, so now is the time to get a little whacky and follow your whims toward something unexpected and magnificent.

Click here to schedule now and bring some whimsy to your writing.

This is just the first installment of the Whimsical Word. You never know what you’re going to get because I never quite know what it is I’m going to write until it’s written.

I will always include a,  Whimsical Word Writing Prompt: