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I realize that the quote - "Just open up your heart and let the world in" - which stuck out as I finished reading James Howe's Addie on the Inside this evening, is exactly what I need to do to get the right writing idea. Just relax and own an idea, and then you will know what your piece is supposed to be about. Maybe last week's ease of slicing came from being open to what ideas were around, while this week I've been looking in the dark corners of my preoccupied brain for the answer to "What was that idea I thought about this morning that I could maybe write about?"
"Just open up your heart and let the world in" is not about getting a pre-established length of paragraphs stamped out, but, rather, asking myself to stop looking for an answer and, instead, just appreciating those things that are around waiting to be thought about in my writing.
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov