Let's Talk with Debra H. Goldstein

I live in the South. People often think this means I run around in flip flops, shorts, and t-shirts. They don’t realize that there are times our temperatures drop into the 30’s, bone-chilling rain falls, it occasionally snows, or we get an ice storm. This past year, we’ve had abnormally hot days and weeks of icy cold. In fact, it was so icy cold that the fountains where I live froze (maintenance didn’t think to turn them off).

The frozen fountains were quite pretty. Because one of them was in the shade, it took more than a week to melt. There were discussions about intervening rather than letting nature take its time, but it was decided that that might be too dangerous to the fountain, property, and whoever was holding the blow torch.

Readers often think writers merrily sit at their laptops writing away. They don’t realize that our muses often are like Southern weather. Some days, the words flow so quickly we must wipe the sweat away. Other times, our thoughts and writing are frozen. Some call that Writer’s Block, but I don’t think it really is.

I think it is the subconscious trying to let the ice gently melt away. Like the fountain, if we try to intervene too much, there is a good chance we’ll cause a catastrophic fire. Rather, if we permit the muse to move at its own pace from our brain to our fingertips, we often come up with quality words we never imagined.

In your life, do you jump the gun to try to change the weather or simply go with the flow?

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