words and pictures

Hello reader words
seer of pictures
thinker of thoughts 

Feel like doing some of that together?

An idea for a new writing series has arisen, so I’m going for it. It's called Words and Pictures. 

Every day for the next who knows how many days, I’m going to draw a little picture of something mundane, and write some possibly tedious, possibly transcendental words to go along with it.

The picture you see above is of the world’s smallest sketch book, and my hand for scale. It’s a drawing of the book, in the book, that I’m doing the drawings in. 

I did a writing series a while back called Little Nothing Moments. They are all still up here on my blog if you didn't catch them first time around.

I get pretty lazy about creative writing if I don’t have some sort of structure to it. I think it’s something to do with the magic of deadlines and promises. So I hope you're up for being the promise side of that magic. 

Maybe it’s a bit like a cat proudly presenting a dead mouse, or a kid bringing home a drawing, or maybe it’s just an idea that arose to be brought into existence and shared. No further analysis required. 

There’s a great little book called The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield. He reckons creative inspiration is an energy that comes through us as conduits not creators. He says… 

“When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favour in her sight. When we sit down and work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.” 

In other words, sit down and do the damn work. Then maybe you’ll write/create something good, and maybe you won’t. 

If you would like to come along on this journey of writing and drawing and thinking and sharing with me, I’d love you to join me here.

I’ve got banana peel, dying leaves, and an electric guitar queued up next.

Leonie x