Twisted Tree Message – Are You a Writer?
We will creatively write on the topics below. I hope to see you at our Zoom meetings on January 9 (6-8 PM) and January 10 (2-4 PM) Central Time. ~David Martin
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- When did you know you were a writer?
- Why do you still write?
- What topics call you to the page?
- If you could write about anything, what would it be?
- In one sentence, what is your message to your readers?
- Does Fine Lines help you write and how?
- How do you wish to improve, as an artist?
- In the next twelve months, what writing goal do you wish to achieve?
- Kathie Haskins says, “Our twisted trees look like her family tree.”
- Do you see yourself in our twisted trees? What does that tell you?
- Metaphors are a good teaching tool.
- I turned to the only sanctuary I had left – within. Many people walk through life without saying what they really mean. Bury your sword and your vengeance. Keep calm, and write on.
- I don’t want to die without knowing who I really am.
- We are unlike others. It is enough to become our own twisted tree and celebrate our uniqueness. Hallelujah.
- We never see the twist coming.
- Kung-Fu: refers to the Chinese martial arts and so much more. “In China, it is any study, learning, or practice that requires patience, energy, and time to complete.” It can be a form of exercise with a spiritual dimension, supreme skill from hard work: fighters, painters, musicians, artists, and writers. Practice. Preparation. Endless repetition until weary and too tired to breathe. Cook. Janitor. Servant. That is the way, the only way, to acquire Kung Fu. Peace is found in the heart of the faithful.
- Who are you?
- Cardinal Rule for Writers – write every day. Keep writing. You don’t know the true story is important, until it’s gone.
- The oldest things on Earth might be found in the Bristle Cone Pine Groves of the White Mountains in California. Some are up to 5,000 years old. The Methusala pine is 4,800 yo. All of them are twisted. The tree rings are similar to human fingerprints.
- Raleigh, when I think of you, now, I feel you illustrated in your life what the Greeks believed: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an art but a habit” (Aristotle). In your quiet and humble way, you gave me inspiration to continue building my home and my work as though I, too, were an artist. H. D. Thoreau would be most proud of you and how you made living each day a work of art.
- Writing is like any other emotion: fear, cold, hunger, but feeling doesn’t mean we can’t control it. Laughter helps. Self-deprecation helps. Turn. Turn. Turn. Twist. Twist. Twist. Live in a lighthouse of your own making.
- My fingers are thin and small. My body is weak and old. Still, I write. Words give me hope and strength. I am not a professional writer, merely a proud amateur who loves being a disciple. Writing is like a furnace. It either melts you or forges you.