Post #35 – Memoir Writing, Journaling – Amber Starfire
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This is not a pen, it is a prayer, one must have compassion for that.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
When you pick up your pen or place your fingers on the keyboard, whether you’re writing in your journal, writing a letter, or writing a novel or memoir, you spill a little of yourself on the page. And this act of taking what is internal — your thoughts, feelings, hopes, fears, and imaginations — and bringing it into the external world is truly a form of prayer, of meditation. It is a seeking to understand oneself in a way that is greater than one’s self. A putting of self into the context of the world.
What could be more human?
When you write today, consider the words of Dostoyevsky:
- What is your prayer?
– - What is the context into which you hope to place your inner life?
– - Who do you hope to touch or to change, and why?
– - How do you hope to change yourself in the writing process?
– - How do you show compassion for the prayer of the pen?
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The Russian writer, Fyodor Dostoyevski, is probably most famous for his novels Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov.
