Hello writers and seekers! My name is Molly Silverstein, and I am the Public Relations Manager at Wildhouse. If you are following this blog, you’ll be hearing from me frequently. I’ll be keeping you up to date on our authors and upcoming books, sharing information on how we work at Wildhouse, and collecting writing tips and inspiring ideas. I want this blog to be for you, and your feedback is important, so please comment or reach out with anything you’d like to see covered on the blog.
A bit of background about me: I grew up in frenetic New York City but moved to the cornfields of Ohio for college, where I studied literature and creative writing. Later I took some of the existential questions that had always haunted my writing to divinity school, where I completed training in hospital chaplaincy and continued to explore how language can speak to the limits of human experience.
My relationship to my writing practice is complicated: I love when I manage to get into flow, but writing sometimes feels like traveling through a claustrophobic tunnel where I can’t see anything and don’t know where I’m headed. Sometimes (rarely) writing pours out of me, but more often I think of the real writing as revising and revising again, the slow sculpting of sentences and paragraphs.
Often when I’m blocked or feel frustrated, I have to stop and remind myself that writing is miraculous. In the space between reader and writer, a new world is created. There is medicine in this act of creation and reception. There is medicine in the self-enlarging acts of reading and writing. Whenever I can, I try to remember this sense of awe.
It is with this reverence in mind that we at Wildhouse set out to create resources and support for the soulful, spiritually adventurous writer. We understand the immense vulnerability and power of sharing your words on the page, and we want to be your companions on this exciting, winding, sometimes frustrating and exhausting journey. Posts on our blog will delve into the process of writing, the path to developing your voice, advice on meeting your edge, moving through blocks, and clearing the channel for your creative gifts to come through, as well as highlights from the wonderful Wildhouse authors and editorial team.
For creative writers and spiritual seekers, solitude is a crucial part of the process. But this solitude only underlines and strengthens the need for life-giving community to fill our cup. It is my hope that this blog can be a place for such community to thrive. So tell me in the comments: What does your writing practice feel like to you? Where are you in your creative process right now? Where are you in your journey?
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