Write what you don’t know yet.
Write what you sincerely care about.
Write what your heart boldly tells you to write even though your mind might be afraid.
Write what you cannot stop dreaming about.
I love beautiful writing, and one of my absolute favourite writers is Elif Shafak, so when she launched a SubStack recently I signed up right away. The very first piece she has written for it she titled “Write what you don’t know“, a title that immediately drew me in, not least as I believe in the idea that I expressed in an earlier post, “Write to discover your thoughts“, as well as other related posts, such as: “Read to collect the dots, write to connect them.”
A big part of what I do with my work with clients is to listen and then seek to connect the dots. My work, my “art” (as I wrote about last month here) is most often expressed through words to express thoughts.
Beyond meeting my clients online or in person, one of the ways I collect dots to later connect them outside my work is by reading wondrously expressed prose. Everything I have read in the novels and other writings by Elif Shafak has been full of beautiful expressions of her thoughts, of the dots she collects and then connects, including the four phrases she expresses at the top of this post. I encourage you to follow the link above to her long and wonderful Substack post, then perhaps to think about how you collect and then connect the dots.