Charlene Lamy Edge Speaks about Writing

Hi, readers and writers, Today I'm checking in to pass along one of my favorite quotes about the creative process. It's from Maria Popova at  10 Learnings from 10 Years of Brain Pickings – The Marginalian : "Build pockets of stillness into your life.  Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to  daydreaming , even to  boredom . The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations. Without this essential stage of  unconscious processing , the entire  flow of the creative process  is broken.  "Most important,  sleep . Besides being  the greatest creative aphrodisiac , sleep also  affects our every waking moment ,  dictates our social rhythm , and even  mediates our negative moods . Be as religious and disciplined about yo...

What's poetry good for? Here's this from Christian Winman , editor of Poetry magazine from 2003-2013:   Let us remember ... that in the end we go to poetry for one reason, so that we might more fully inhabit our lives and the world in which we live them, and that if we more fully inhabit these things, we might be less apt to destroy both. Thanks for reading! Charlene