Writing Creatively meets lovey-dovey

So, I have been enjoying looking to some of my favorite writers/bloggers for inspiration. Today, I've decided to bring out the big guns...someone whom I consider to be famous, Felicia Day (see Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog and various other projects.) You can check out her website/blog here.

Here is an excerpt:

It takes a very brave person to express themselves creatively. I know the paralyzing fear of being bad very well; it’s one of my greatest weaknesses. For years I had a voice inside me telling I “should” do this and I “should” do that, but I couldn’t overcome the possibility of being horrible to actually risk doing something about it. So I did nothing. And I loathed myself for my weakness.

Finally I had a strange realization that time passes whether you’re doing something with it or not. It would be easy to let every day go by easily with no risk and then, at the end of the day (my life), I would look back and realize that fear ruled me: At that point there would be nothing I could do about it. So, I got off my butt! It wasn’t easy and I had a lot of lapses (I still do) but the experience of being ruthless with myself was an amazing lesson to learn.


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She posted a lot of books that helped her, things that she tried, and many of those things stuck with me. Being as though I'm trying to write every day, today's writing prompt came from a website/book that she suggested by author C.M. Mayo. The book, Daily 5 Minute Writing Exercises, is pretty much exactly what it says it is. There are some amazingly awesome ideas in here, ones that I never would have ever thought to write about...It has been amazingly inspiring, terrifying, and has pushed me to look outside the box.

Today's writing exercise is taken from that website and will hopefully be interesting for you to read.

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February 13 "Message for a Stranger on February 14"
Today's exercise was inspired by an essay published yesterday in the Washington Post, by Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood. She wrote, "writing, like sewing, was always for someone, even if that someone was yourself in the future. Writing was a way of sending your voice to someone you might never meet." Imagine that tomorrow a stranger will pick up the scrap of paper on which you have written the following words:
(Note: this exercise is especially fun if you really do leave the scrap of paper somewhere for someone to find it-- perhaps on a park bench or in an elevator.)




Dearest,

If you're reading this, it means that I'm not there with you...at least I'm only there in spirit. I think the things that I will miss the most are when you brush your lips lightly against mine, when we dance around the kitchen like a bunch of goof balls, when you put your arms around me and kiss my neck.

I know that we're not separated because our love links us. Our life has been a mixture of dreams, fantasy and reality. You have always played the lead role, the love interest, the husband, the bad guy, the hero, and, in the end, the person I wanted to be with forever and ever.

Our love has stood the test of time...