License to Steal

President Barack Obama presenting Maya Angelou
 with the Presidential Medal of
Freedom (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Spewing on the insides of the species are latent properties, poignant assets to usher in our becoming. Diving into the aspects holds a rare kind of electrifying activity. We all are created with a dash of creative abilities. Tucked right in there within all of us like a truckload of chicken waiting to be plucked. You could reach inside this very minute and make a grab 'cause it's yours for the taking.

We are sufficient in ourselves. "Now, hold it right there", you say. "Ain't that flaunting?" No, I reply. No it is not. Unless my words lean to the reasoning that I do not need you and you do not need me. But that isn't what I mean and we do need one another. That's one reason you read this.

On another level, it's such fun to know that when my skull hits the pillow at night, that right there in bed with me is the power to write my own reality; that when the lids of my eyes are afire with the red glow which signifies the morning sun is coming through my window and is on my face; that at the very moment of my waking, the source of my relevance in this world jumps out of bed with me; that he or she is with me as I type this words.

We need to remember that we are created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed. Maya Angelou.

It's crazy what we possess in the light of the individual's outlook of his own personality. And I ain't talking wit, buddy. I'm talking homegrown ability that has origins in your heart!

You got what it takes. I got what it takes. We got what it takes to walk the ocean floor and never have to breathe! Never, ever, ever, ever!

Most of us have no idea of our real creative height, we are much more gifted than we know. Julia Cameron.

I can sense the tide coming in. And just maybe, I need this more than you do. Maybe, I'm talking to myself after all. When you have just one molecule of your limitlessness placed under a light microscope and magnified forty times over to present all the glittering details . . . No feeling on earth is as powerful as that. To stand in the knowing of who you are, top that with a premise that you have absolutely nothing to prove to anybody, is like a license to steal.

Keep Your pen bleeding!


Akpan

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Remarkable Adventures

Writing can be a terrific adventure. Moments fueled by unfolding layers of exciting activities. Pages after pages of stolen mysteries whipped up by the sound of paper.

Faced with the possibility of failure a writer feels the eyes of discouragement stalking his will with a white hot glare. I have had moments of doubt myself. Still do, sometimes. I think the one single ingredient that kept me going were Maya Angelou’s words, ‘There ain’t nothing to it, but to do it’. Yes, there’s no other way to keep up but by keeping up. When we finally find the courage to go on, we would have achieved an endless access into the streams of our creativeness.

Our journeys in the world of the imagination can be tinged with a bit of magic. But first, we must find a way around the obstacles and get our creative juices boiling. Finding what works for you, the subject that makes you tick would be one step in the right direction.

Often, we find ourselves picking someone else’s vines, writing stuff that’s totally off limits to us. And many times, the stuffs we write about may not even spark one single flame of interest inside us.

Beating our tracks back to familiar grounds could very well set us off to a good start. I’ve learned how tough it is to be inventive wading through strange waters. When you walk into a topic you have no business in the world messing in, you’re stuck. You just might want to give up on writing entirely, thinking it’s not for you. It takes just that little effort to run into a wall.

When we are unblocked we can have remarkable and diverse adventures - Julia Cameron.

The point is to find a primary genre and put a tag on it. From that instant forward, the block becomes somewhat of a myth. Discovery of a genre we can naturally adapt to unplugs our muse, puts the wind at our backs, and then it slides us into the embrace of remarkable adventures.

Keep the scribbler's pen bleeding!

Akpan

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