Liz Warren | Storyteller

While working on my repertoire of stories, I was gushing with creativity and energy.  One idea led to another and another and another followed by my organizing them into logical and distinctive categories.  As I wrote brief descriptions for each story, it was as if I was ‘reliving’ the stories much in the manner of a life review.  Time and space melted away and I was fully immersed in the experience of remembering these personal stories.  The more I worked, the more I wanted to work.  Some writers have called this ‘being in the flow” as it felt like the stories were carrying me rather than me carrying them. 

 

Another way of describing this is a sense of being pregnant with story ideas.  While some of these stories are full term and in fact, already delivered, others are very much in various states of the gestational period of reflection, nurturance and growth.  I am certain they will tell me when they are ready to emerge to the outer world.  The labor pains will be an impatient insistence to be shared, to be told, to be heard.  In the meantime, I both eagerly and patiently await their arrival as I continue to provide the most optimal environment for their development.

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