Reading up around the web, seeking sources of insight on how to host conversations in small circles for people to investigate and learn more about themselves, and find their writing ‘voice’. I found this.
SUPPORTING ONE ANOTHER: The most important way we support each other is by allowing whatever needs to be written to come, be it anger, grief, absurdity, horror, hilarity or tentativeness. It’s all of value in first writings because sometimes it is the first time someone has tapped a particular tree of material and they’ve risked writing about it, or sometimes it’s something that needs to be written out of the way before other writing can emerge. We honor those first writings by carefully listening to what is working and what will affirm each individual writer’s voice and journey. –Writer’s Digest roundup on writing circles.
It’s from Writer’s Digest, a publication I have come to see in a very different light now that I’ve been outside of the United States for 15 years, if you add them up. But that’s okay. We can learn from what they have gathered, I think. This excerpt from one person’s reflections really stood out to me, and I wanted to share it, here.
More to say.
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