Flip the Script: Creativity as Nurturance
Day Ninety-five
Creativity as Nurturance
“All the time I’m not writing, I feel like a criminal,” Fran Lebowitz once said. “It’s horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It’s much more relaxing actually to write.”
My favorite place to write and edit is in bed. And yes, I love to sit in the corner of a coffee shop as I have written about many times. It’s just that there is something about a bed that provides a container of safety so that my creative muse can dance and play and birth a flow of creativity.
On a rainy, windy, cold, February day in Burbank, California, I sent a text to one of the authors in the latest Heal My Voice project. She had emailed multiple drafts of the same story. Words swirling and packed with emotion. I wanted to know if she wanted to huddle together and see what we could create on that day.
Me cuddled in bed on the West Coast in my newly washed, red-flannel pajamas, fuzzy blankets, pillows positioned to support my back and warming my hands on a steaming cup of coffee while balancing the laptop between my knees.
I waited for her response.
From the warmth of her bed on the East Coast, on a snowy, blizzardy day. She texted yes. She wanted to write the story and she was ready to dig in to…
