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9781608682867 English 1608682862 Align Your Creative Energy with Nature's "Everything we know about creating," writes Tina Welling, "we know intuitively from the natural world." In "Writing Wild," Welling details a three-step "Spirit Walk" process for inviting nature to enliven and inspire our creativity., Even if we don't write about nature specifically, Tina Welling demonstrates how nature triggers our stories. This is because "everything we know about creating, we know intuitively from the natural world." One can set the stage for creation by consciously naming the information gathered by the senses, describing the sensory details of one particular object, and interacting with the energy system of the universe. Welling experienced this last step while hiking and observing an intricate spider web shimmering in sunlight. Spider webs, she notes, are both "wondrous and ordinary." They're ordinary in that they are made of chewed up insects, yet wondrous in their intricacy. Writing often seeks for just this kind of connection between the everyday and its hidden, worthy-of-attention wonderful. Making this kind of connection, and developing a fruitful relationship with wildness inside and out, is a process Welling makes accessible to any writer, journal keeper, or insight seeker., Even if we don't write about nature, Tina Welling demonstrates, nature triggers our stories. This is because "everything we know about creating, we know intuitively from the natural world." One can set the stage for creation by following these three steps: consciously naming the information gathered by the senses, describing the sensory details of one particular object, and interacting with the energy system of the universe. Welling discovered the last step while hiking and observing an intricate spiderweb shimmering in sunlight. Spiderwebs, she notes, are both "wondrous and ordinary" - ordinary in that they are made of chewed-up insects, yet wondrous in their intricacy. Welling shows writers how to make this kind of connection between the everyday and the hidden, worthy-of-attention beauty all around us. She makes the process of developing a fruitful relationship with wildness inside and out accessible to all writers and insight seekers., Novelist Tina Welling believes the senses operate as a power lines between our own personal creative energy and the creative energy of the natural world. The senses form an exchange with the natural world around us. This exchange with nature then serves as a guide and support system for developing and managing our personal creative energy. The journey begins when the senses open to the natural world. Tuning into nature's aliveness awakens the instinctive body. And this awakening in turn stirs emotion. Emotion then attaches itself to memories, hopes, fears and dreams, and brings them into conscious awareness. In short, nature triggers our stories. An active outdoorsperson, Welling is a longtime resident of Jackson Hole, WY. Her fiction draws on the American West, which forms a vivid backdrop for the lives of the people she writes about. In "Writing Wild," she captures how the natural world around her has inspired and enlivened her writing and how it can do the same for anyone else through a three-step process -- naming, detailing and interacting -- which she calls the Spirit Walk. With step one, she names in writing the information gathered by her five senses. This naming centers the awareness of body and place. In step two, she describes the sensory details of one particular object from her natural surroundings. The act of noticing and then writing down these details hones awareness and deepens the connection between body and place. In step three, interacting, an organic process of exchange occurs between the writer and the natural world. The poet Pattiann Rogers said that if she were transported to another planet, she would begin with the senses: "And I would describe a physical object very carefully and then see if anything else rose out of that." As writers, we capture our amplified awareness on paper, and our stories and language take on a vibrancy and authenticity that only comes from true experience. Welling's hope is to offer this discovery to others who wish to live and write more fully. The earth, too, benefits from the recognition of its value as a creative resource. Once we open to an awareness of self and earth, we begin to value both more deeply. "Writing Wild" reminds us, with beautiful language and powerful instruction, that the natural world offers itself as a resource for guidance and inspiration with our own creative and healing energy.
9781608682867 English 1608682862 Align Your Creative Energy with Nature's "Everything we know about creating," writes Tina Welling, "we know intuitively from the natural world." In "Writing Wild," Welling details a three-step "Spirit Walk" process for inviting nature to enliven and inspire our creativity., Even if we don't write about nature specifically, Tina Welling demonstrates how nature triggers our stories. This is because "everything we know about creating, we know intuitively from the natural world." One can set the stage for creation by consciously naming the information gathered by the senses, describing the sensory details of one particular object, and interacting with the energy system of the universe. Welling experienced this last step while hiking and observing an intricate spider web shimmering in sunlight. Spider webs, she notes, are both "wondrous and ordinary." They're ordinary in that they are made of chewed up insects, yet wondrous in their intricacy. Writing often seeks for just this kind of connection between the everyday and its hidden, worthy-of-attention wonderful. Making this kind of connection, and developing a fruitful relationship with wildness inside and out, is a process Welling makes accessible to any writer, journal keeper, or insight seeker., Even if we don't write about nature, Tina Welling demonstrates, nature triggers our stories. This is because "everything we know about creating, we know intuitively from the natural world." One can set the stage for creation by following these three steps: consciously naming the information gathered by the senses, describing the sensory details of one particular object, and interacting with the energy system of the universe. Welling discovered the last step while hiking and observing an intricate spiderweb shimmering in sunlight. Spiderwebs, she notes, are both "wondrous and ordinary" - ordinary in that they are made of chewed-up insects, yet wondrous in their intricacy. Welling shows writers how to make this kind of connection between the everyday and the hidden, worthy-of-attention beauty all around us. She makes the process of developing a fruitful relationship with wildness inside and out accessible to all writers and insight seekers., Novelist Tina Welling believes the senses operate as a power lines between our own personal creative energy and the creative energy of the natural world. The senses form an exchange with the natural world around us. This exchange with nature then serves as a guide and support system for developing and managing our personal creative energy. The journey begins when the senses open to the natural world. Tuning into nature's aliveness awakens the instinctive body. And this awakening in turn stirs emotion. Emotion then attaches itself to memories, hopes, fears and dreams, and brings them into conscious awareness. In short, nature triggers our stories. An active outdoorsperson, Welling is a longtime resident of Jackson Hole, WY. Her fiction draws on the American West, which forms a vivid backdrop for the lives of the people she writes about. In "Writing Wild," she captures how the natural world around her has inspired and enlivened her writing and how it can do the same for anyone else through a three-step process -- naming, detailing and interacting -- which she calls the Spirit Walk. With step one, she names in writing the information gathered by her five senses. This naming centers the awareness of body and place. In step two, she describes the sensory details of one particular object from her natural surroundings. The act of noticing and then writing down these details hones awareness and deepens the connection between body and place. In step three, interacting, an organic process of exchange occurs between the writer and the natural world. The poet Pattiann Rogers said that if she were transported to another planet, she would begin with the senses: "And I would describe a physical object very carefully and then see if anything else rose out of that." As writers, we capture our amplified awareness on paper, and our stories and language take on a vibrancy and authenticity that only comes from true experience. Welling's hope is to offer this discovery to others who wish to live and write more fully. The earth, too, benefits from the recognition of its value as a creative resource. Once we open to an awareness of self and earth, we begin to value both more deeply. "Writing Wild" reminds us, with beautiful language and powerful instruction, that the natural world offers itself as a resource for guidance and inspiration with our own creative and healing energy.