Into The Storm

 

The storm comes through with strong winds and knocks everything around and pours chaos into the world.

As a writer, I walk into that storm every day.

My mind is always full of racing thoughts.

A storm.

An outpouring of precipitation washing over my brain and giving me idea after idea. Story after story. It can get crazy and overwhelming.

In that storm, however, is a raindrop.

One single drop of water falling from the sky.

Each single idea is like a raindrop in the rainstorm.

When I focus on that one drop or that one thought, I feel sometimes like my soul is reflected back to me and characters begin to introduce themselves. I am lost in a daydream and everything else is tuned out. That one idea overtakes my mind and I succumb to it.

Not all of these ideas stick, however. Some never make it to paper. They come and they go. When that happens, I greet and thank them, then let them pass.  

But the moment I get a gem or one of those raindrops that has potential to change everything, it is an amazing experience. I begin to write that story or novel. Following those characters, I journey wherever they take me.

When I decided to name this blog “Daydreaming on a Raindrop,” I wanted to capture how I felt when a new poem, short story or novel flooded my mind and begged to be brought to life.

A raindrop.

An idea.

One single drop of water.

One single inspiration.

Into the storm I walk and my life is better for it.