Since participating in two VerbTribes with Patti Digh, I’ve discovered that the best place to begin as a writer really is to write what we know.
A few years ago, I wrote a short story about a summer afternoon in 1979 with my childhood best friend, Bianca.
When my partner booked me a surprise birthday massage last weekend at our Las Vegas hotel spa, I was so ready for some TLC. But was I ready for my five foot something, 50ish, pony-tailed, blue eye-shadowed spitfire massage lady, Tammy from Missouri?
One of our VerbTribe writing prompts from Patti Digh was to walk the .25 mile radius from our home, for four days. As writers, our job is to see and see more and see even more. We walked, we noticed what we noticed, we made notes and from there, we wrote.
Here's what I saw in my quarter mile radius.
In our VerbTribe writing course, with Patti Digh, we’ve been exploring terrains. Our neighbourhoods, the space in our writing room, emotional landscapes, our skin and the last two days, our hearts. “Take us on a tour of your heart, however you wish.”
This is mine.
May 23, 2012