My first writing festival! Like a 13 year old girl on Rodeo Drive, I cannot possibly see all that is luscious. Today’s Day 3; I need to make room and shake out some of the vibrating energy in my fingers….
I want to be able to carry around the speeches and conversations with me like a little shot of 5-Hour Inspiration that I can kick back every day as I sit down to write. Then if it wears off after a few hours (or minutes) I can go ahead and knock back another, because it would be okay to be addicted to Susan Isaacs’ humor or the wisdom of Daniel Taylor.
I want to bottle up the energy that drove my pen through each session, and couldn’t get it all quite down fast enough. So the a-ha moments don’t fade even a little bit.
Like acupuncture, I want to use my notes to ignite the inspiration Susan Isaacs made seem so easy. Desire is the atomic fuel of the heart. What’s your purpose; the dramatic question that’s underlying your life?
I need to create new and permanent pathways in my mind that instinctively use John Sloan’s insistence that we write with conviction, tell it slant, and that the better truth might be through a dirty lens.
Daniel Taylor spoke with expertise and his own life’s truths and reminded us that we can write honorably even in the midst of painful stories.
A conversation with Ann Voskamp, in a Chapel filled with admirers, sitting 20 feet away from her, and next to the famous Mary DeMuth, I witnessed the palatable authenticity of this gifted servant and was yet again moved by her deep expression of her powerful (and scary) calling.
I have a new booklist as long as my leg, and new friends who are celebrating the touchable vibe of a new title about to hit the streets. I’m certain God wanted me to know Heather Kopp because it might have seemed like one of us was stalking the other (I’m just sayin’).
No one else can write the book that You (and I) are meant to write. Drink it all in!
6 Comments
Karen Trigg
Beautifully written! Accepted as a gift and tucked into my heart. I will continue on with what God has put on my heart to pen.
Thank you for this Saturday morning moment.
Suzy
Thanks Karen! May your Saturday be inspired wherever you are!
Christie
So glad we met at the conference Suzy! I’m looking forward to keeping up with your writing here.
Suzy
Christie,
It was indeed a treat to meet you. I clearly have some catching up to do with you blog too! Have a great week!
Caris Adel
I love reading all the responses to the festival. 5-hour inspiration. Ha! Wouldn’t that be great? I keep thinking about the attendees as my ‘great cloud of witnesses’ and that I can be so much farther along in my writing journey in 2 years if I keep working at it. I can’t wait until the audio sessions get released and I can catch up on the sessions I missed.
Suzy
Me Too! I’m so glad you came over here and shared! I was doing that projecting-thing into 2014’s FFW. Maybe we should write down our vision for what we’ll have finished and accomplished by then and meet for coffee to check boxes. I want to stay in that energy-moment and here I sit with my sleeping labrador.
This feels like a very special tribe already. Thanks again, Caris. Off I go to your site!