“If your eyes see the world dripping with wonder as spider webs drip with dew, your writing will show it. If your eyes see corruption and deceit behind every closed door, you will read like a conspiracy novel. If your eyes see a young boy walk onto your train, a scar on his forehead and a wand in his hand, you will be J.K. Rowling. We write what we see.” (Joe Bunting, The Write Practice: 14 Prompts)
Writer: How do you see the world?
I’ve asked myself this question so many times this past week.
The way you answer this question impacts your entire writing career.
You may not realize it, but you have control of how you view the world. You can close your eyes to the beauty, you can choose to see only the bad. And your writing will mirror that.
Or you can choose to open your eyes and behold wonder. You can paint love and beauty with your words.
Its been a magical week of discovering this truth. There are times I have so much to learn, to discover, to understand, to do, and to create; I don’t even want to sleep. I just want to sit up through the dark and play with words. I want to read a million books in a sitting. Devour tales and theories, ideas and stories.
I want to learn to see the world the way I want to write it.
Learn to write the world how I see it.
Tracing Wonder 