Let’s start over. I’ll be the teacher and you can be the writer. Come up with the first line then lean into the second. You are on your way to filling up a page with the progression of an idea you didn’t even know existed before those two lines. Now fill in the body of that idea with anything you have learned over the course of your life that will reveal the path of your existence that has not been paved over from neglecting your creativity. Soon you will find new territories and adventure.
It is okay that you didn’t create the words we use, you have a way of putting them into sequence that is unique to your learning style, your lifestyle, and your style of writing.
Your way of presenting the idea is what matters most to the reader, not the use of big words. Don’t overuse the same words to the detriment of sounding boring. It’s okay to use basic words like boring instead of grabbing a thesaurus to seem profound but only if you can use words to avoid a hurried outcome from the interpretation of the words in sequence, most of us can’t. Covering up the mundane world of red roses and blue violets with more brilliant colors leads to the next few thoughts being painted from practice instead of color-by-numbers.
You must decide if the composition will be philosophical, filled with wisdom you have heard that you never forgot; psychology, with what you have said and unable to forget; or poetry, filled with what you have seen that is good you can still remember. You will then be able to make sense out of wisdom, the practice of experience.
Go back and read what you have written already and elaborate on your ideas with all the forgetting and remembering that has allowed you to have moments of both greatness and losses that dares you to continue reading and entices you to keep writing it.
Learn from what you write, learn to write better from your own encouragement. Nobody can teach brilliance, we can only see where it came from as it radiates around us and bask in it for now.
Francis Erich McElroy 