On Getting Out of the Way

How do YOU get out of the way and let inspiration happen?

Me?

I made a desk,

Or rather

A desk made me.

While toying

Tossing

Wrestling ideas

Wrangling plots

Characters

Motives

Swirling the story

Letting it

Present

New patterns

Pieces

And possibilities

The mundane

Instructions

Emptied me out

Step by step

I trickled aside

And the story

Fell in to place.

I made a desk

Or rather
A desk made me. ~ Olivia J. Herrell

My New Sauder Writing Desk 

Olivia J. Herrell is currently working on BLESSED ARE THE PEACE MAKERS, a Fantasy trilogy set in Atlanta, Georgia, in the not-too-far-distant future. Author of the blog "Olivia J Herrell, That Rebel with a Blog", and a member of the Relentless Writers Group, you can find her articles here once-a-month (or so).