Writing & Word Love Tip: One Sentence - One Word - At a Time

Sometimes I simply write one sentence at a time.

Sometimes that is the best medicine. One sentence – no, one word - at a time.

Slowly, methodically, letter by letter dropped onto the page.

Phase two: Let the words sit without you hovering.

Get up and leave, do something else,  remembering what you have written even in the vaguest sense.

In case you didn't "get" that, what I said was...

Get up and leave, do something else,  remembering what you have written even in the vaguest sense.

Return and repeat: one sentence at a time

Our best medicine may be a word at a time.

The most important ingredient in the word-love writing medicine is action. You pick up your pencil (or pen, fingers on the keyboard, etc) and you write that one word.

Simply start and continue and take a break and start and continue and take a break.

Here is how I did it just now for a story I want to write but can’t seem to get it to work how I want it to, right now.

Instead of sitting and doing nothing, I am choosing to write one word or a phrase and then one sentence about three images from the story I want to tell.

Waiting - - - The farmer’s recent presence is left behind as he takes his claim upon the still sleeping trees.

 

DIY – The Farmer made a stop sign from agricultural scraps. Such a human element amidst so many growing things.

 

Dancing. The upturned tree exposes roots as their ghosts take the opportunity to throw a celebratory ball.

What images or words or sentences are calling you to put them into language form?

Instead of rushing to write, “rush” to allow yourself to take action to write slowly.

Allow your write action to be a peaceful waterfall of words rather than a freight train rumbling through a busy intersection, upsetting the normal traffic patterns by shouting with its horn and making the buildings around it shake.

One word.

One phrase.

One sentence.

Repeat. Allow the words to guide the growth of the writing itself.

Take action, slowly....

 

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