Man on Fire

When it comes to the gift of the "Think - Write - Flow" process, Mark Brady over at Fouroboros has it. Period. He often reminds me of a great jazz musician, riffing at a level that sometimes blows me away.

Being fairly new to the writing game, I not only look upon this blog as an opportunity to talk about the importance of marketing to women, but as motivation for just plain writing.

Check out Mark's 4/21 post titled "Burning Desires." In it, he riffs on the responsbilities assigned to us not only as writers, but readers as well.

Mark writes:

"You don't write a book without feeling you have something to say. You don't recognize you have something to say unless it pounds in your mind as being relevant, or urgent, or different. And again, you don't say something out loud, in print, to millions unless the urge to share and inform outweighs your worry for being shown a fool or a lightweight or a bore. For this, I am awed by the mere fact that a book gets written.

But books require similar risk and investment and willingness to suspend anxieties from a reader, don't they? Books are like bricks. You can collect them and stack them merely to say you have them, and perhaps, to infer you've read them all (God knows, I haven't read all mine.) Or, you can build something with them, a worldview, say. Or a fire. Yes, that's it. A fire. You can rub them together in your head, and build a fire. I much prefer fire over worldview. It feels more real, more in touch with the senses. A worldview seems more inert and abstract, more the way we might disinterestedly watch a child's ant colony--Us, and them; we observing, they doing. They committed to exploring and building, trying and failing and trying again, and us, taking notes, with no skin in the game."

It set me right on my tail with its message to both ends of the reader-writer spectrum. On fire, indeed! Be sure to check out Mark's complete article: Burning Desires

Comments

[fouroboros]

Michele, what a way to start the day! Thanks!

Ah geez, now I have to live up to the billing....