Shauna Niequist’s Blog – post on writing and creativity

Pulse presenter Shauna Niequist recently wrote a blog post about writing and creativity, a topic she’ll be diving into at Pulse. She settles on a really insightful truth about how messy creativity can (even needs to) be.

Here are a couple of excerpts.

“Five years ago this month I was working on Cold Tangerines. I didn’t have a blog. No Facebook or Twitter. I wrote and wrote, and for ages, no one saw it. Occasionally my editor. Very rarely, a friend. It was a wide, sloppy, creative, beautiful mess. Bits and pieces, knit together and unraveled, over and over till they settled together like old friends. There were a few of those essays that I wrote straight through, in a flame of creativity and pure happiness, but I think that happened because I gave myself the protected time and space to write both good stuff and terrible stuff.”

“So here’s to the mess, the sprawling, ugly-beautiful, chicken-scratched, rabbit-trailed, creative wandering. To the discipline it takes to stay there. And to the goodness we find when we linger there.”

Check out the entire post at shaunaniequist.com