Before writing this blog, I sat at our campfire circle surrounded by the trees and birds contemplating my relationship with writing and nature.
The question I journaled on was this:
“How does my relationship with nature inspire and transform the stories I write, and how does writing deepen my connection to the natural world?”
My own deepening relationship with nature has shown up as a thread running through the novel I’m writing based on my grandmother’s life.
In Finding Elsie, the three main characters are connected through a shared love of birds. Each one has a love of a different bird: Elsie the magpie, Suzi the blue wren and Carla the yellow-tail black cockatoo.
The birds are symbolic in that while they’re unalike in their characteristics and song, they share a common purpose to empower women and give them a voice, and to bring about justice for nature and the environment.
Even if you’re not writing on a subject to do with women or nature, nature is the perfect backdrop to spark creativity and inspire your writing.
Writing with nature as your muse is pure bliss.
In my experience, the more nature-connected a woman is, the better, bolder and braver the writing is.
What about you? How do you write with nature? Have you considered how you might deepen your connection between nature and writing? I’d love to know.
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We’ll be contemplating this journaling question at the women’s writers’ retreat in Red Hill on Saturday 18 January. Everyone gets a signed copy of Brave Women Write. Hope you can make it. BOOK HERE
Because your story matters, now more than ever.
With love
Carolyn Tate
Author | Educator | Community Builder | Author of The Purpose Project & Brave Women Write
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