Writing in the Flow

More thoughts on writing "in the Zone"

“This happens when finding the right words is no longer a struggle. Words simply flow into your head faster than you can write them down (or press the keyboard). You read what you have just written and say: “Bloody hell. That’s good. Did I really write that? Wonder where all that came from.”
– A “nony-moose” writer

“Suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was kind of driving by instinct, only I was in a different dimension. I was way over the limit; but still I was able to find even more. It frightened me, because I realised I was well beyond my conscious understanding.”

– the late , great Ayrton Senna

Writers, like racing drivers, challenge themselves and their readers in new ways, They find new niches “writing on the edge”. I want to continually test my own writing “limits”, the “boundaries of my imagination.”

"Driven
I love writing about ‘ordinary’ (what’s that?) people doing extra-ordinary things. I find these stories hugely empowering and inspirational on my own journey “on the path less travelled”. I hope these thoughts on the writing journey may be uplifting, empowering (edifying), enriching and perhaps even inspirational to you. m Enjoy…

“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure…than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
– Theodore Roosevelt quotes (American 26th US President (1901-09), 1858-1919)

“It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
– Robert Francis Kennedy quotes ( US attorney general and adviser, 1925-1968)

“The important thing in life is not to triumph, but to compete, it s not victory but combat, not to have vanquished but to have fought well, not winning but taking part.”

– Pierre de Coubertin (French Educator, primarily responsible for the revival of the Olympic Games in 1894. 1863-1937)

“Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.”
– Leavis
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“I want to write the way Gilles Villeneuve drove and power-slid his blood-red Formula One Ferrari… with wild enthusiasm and a sense of abandonment, combined with the artists craft of a Stirling Moss, a Jim Clark, and especially that of the great Ayrton Senna, living on the razor-blade edge of life.”

“Grand Prix racing is primarily a mental contest… it’s a battle of strength
of wills by the combatants and a magnificent contest, the arena to display
and share unique gifts and talents. Perhaps in this ‘theatre of speed’ F1 is a metaphor for life itself”
– craig

“Schumachers 2010 return shows the dream still burns – but the rest of us ‘losers’ should take heart. The key here is the dream, rather than its realisation. It may not be explicable to us mere mortals, but the more I heard about this ‘Heaven on Earth’ called the Zone, the more I was convinced it is the true Holy Grail – not just for racing drivers, but for all human beings in whatever we do. Finding it often enough inevitably leads to ‘winning’ in earthly terms, but it only comes into reach, when you rid yourself of the obsession with the end result. The shortcut to the Zone is to join the wimps, forget about winning and revel in the beauty of playing the game.”
– powerful writing from Clyde Brolin in his excellent book ‘Overdrive: Formula One in the Zone’

For dearest mom and dad, your spirits live on (forever)
thanks for everything and "let" RIP
c

"Driven to uplift, encourage and (perhaps even) inspire"