La autora encuentra la mayor satisfacción en el acto solitario de escribir, particularmente en esos momentos de repentina perspicacia o cuando ideas dispares convergen en algo completamente nuevo. Si bien la validación externa, como ver libros en los estantes, es agradable, la verdadera fuerza impulsora reside en estos descubrimientos creativos internos. La alegría más profunda, sin embargo, proviene de la conexión íntima forjada con los lectores, creando un círculo completo de entendimiento entre escritor y público.
Align Your Creative Energy with Nature’s “Everything we know about creating,” writes Tina Welling, “we know intuitively from the natural world.” In Writing Wild, Welling details a three-step “Spirit Walk” process for inviting nature to enliven and inspire our creativity.
In 2011, novelist Tina Welling began teaching journaling workshops for the mostly male inmates at the Teton County Jail in Jackson, Wyoming. What began as a little-understood impulse on her part became a meaningful journey with surprising results. Welling was floored by how much she had in common with the incarcerated: “It’s just that they had been arrested and I had not.” They talked and wrote about self-esteem, anger, forgiveness, compassion, personal power, codependency. She gave the men one hour a week to explore their inner lives; they gave her an unprecedented experience of intimacy and vulnerability. Replete with the kind of gorgeous writing for which Welling is acclaimed, Tuesdays in Jail is part memoir, part riveting exploration of individual inmates’ lives and challenges, and an enlightening and insightful examination of American incarceration.