A Meditative walk - Actifit Report: September 8 2019

Where did this weekend go? Well, I could list the things that devoured my weekend, including house cleaning, overnight guests, a family dinner out, a shopping trip, a trip to the city to deliver furniture to my daughter’s apartment, etc… but in fact it was a rhetorical question. A two day weekend just isn’t enough.

My main activity for the weekend, however, was writing. Glorious, glorious writing. I have been away from it for too long due to just way too much going on in my life, but at last I believe it will all start to simmer down and I can get back to my favorite little past time -- fiction writing.

Writing isn’t easy. Things often don’t go well. There might be plot holes. Or you know one scene must lead to another, but the seams are too ragged. Or one character is overly developed and one is kind of opaque or boring. All kinds of things go haywire and need to be fixed, rewritten and improved.

Enter the meditative walk. I’m not sure why this works so well, but it does. What I do is I head out for a long walk, and I listen to an audio book that I really like. What happens, bizarrely, is that while I’m listening to the book, my subconscious mind is working on my story. I have these little ah-has, as I’m walking along, about how to fix things and improve the writing and repair the plot holes. And then I return to my computer and I am ready to write them all down.

If you write and ever deal with writer’s block, I can’t recommend this highly enough!

So… that is how I got my steps today. Unfortunately I ended up walking mostly after dark, and did not take any pictures. But I have rounded up a sunset picture on the bay from another recent walk. I thought this one might go nicely with the meditative walk theme.

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