STARTING TO WRITE Burrowing into Your Wrting––Close Observation

Observing closely...one of the secrets to great writing, the key to finding your writing muse. And so simple! Just spend a small amount of time paying close attention to your environment. Register the sensory responses you have for ten minutes or so, focusing on your inner relationship to them…that link between what you sense (see, hear, feel, taste, smell, understand, infer, intuit). I call this 'burrowing into your writing' because sometimes I lose myself into this process. It becomes a 'brown study', more or less, I'm entering a gentle trance-like state that will help me create my words. 

In this blogpost for #WeAreOCA, I look at what some renown writers on writing have to say about observing closely, then offer some further work you can do to help your abilities with close observation, until you too can 'burrow into your writing', deeper and deeper. to the places with the most potency, where your muse awaits you.

Click on the link here to read the rest of this post at WeareOCA from the Open College of the Arts.