Did you ever make a leap in a project without knowing how it happened? You’re plugging along, writing away, and then “bamm” like Spiderman you’ve traveled from one building to the other side of town. After eight weeks of steadily writing with the Sound Cliff Writing Spa you notice that you suddenly have a full journal, a stack of poems, half of a novel, or a bunch of blog entries.  Anne Lamott says that writing happens this way, “Bird by Bird” she calls it. Step by step, with daily practice, you have created your own little creative writer’s universe.

This week is about stretching ourselves. Can I be like Spiderman, LET GO of the edge of a building, swing that sticky rope, and see where I land?

Where would you anchor your web? What’s the first place or image that comes to mind?  Write it down. This week, write about an aspect of your writing life that you can stretch. I invite you to spend lots of time free-writing in your journal this week. The best stretching happens when we give up control.

Here I am STRETCHING out my hand with a piece of Howlite that I bought at the store Dreams East. The little white piece of paper it came with said it, “Encourages calmness, awareness, progress.”

Okay, I’m calmly swinging from a spider web off the Empire State Building.

I draw a spider web in my journal and resist the temptation to color in each little shape. I write my observations from my web on top of New York City.  I just wish I wore a coat.