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How brewing kombucha can help you become a stronger writer. (Part 2 of 2).

4/10/2013

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Deciding is the first step in any creative process.  By deciding to make kombucha, I also decide not to make (at least in that moment) beer, sake, wine, mead, cider, etc.

So the first batch/draft is made.  Now what?

Wait.

That four-letter word is why I wrote these kombucha posts.  Waiting is what gives your creations flavor and maturity.  I used to really, really struggle with waiting.  (Now, I can use just one 'really.'  Hey, it's progress.)  When I started fermenting things I finally understood how essential waiting is to making things that are robust, rather than weak and watery.  So after your first round of making something:
 
*  Put it away.  Step aside.
*  Live your life and tend to other things.
*  Resist the temptation to peek and meddle.
*  Rest in the knowledge that transformation is allowed, not forced.
*  Chuckle at the irony that you, and your perceptions, are changing while you wait.

Conscious waiting is not idle.  It is a very active state of mind, and state of mastery, that rounds out the body of your creation, while also mellowing its creator.

Adopting a fermenter's mindset, and applying it to your writing, will help you relax and be at-ease with your creative gaps.  Do you really want to crank out vats of uninteresting, non-nourishing kool-aid?  There's plenty of sugar-water already flowing in the world.  Take your time with what you pour.  Choose savory.
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Grace Kerina link
4/10/2013 11:34:20 pm

Who knew kombucha-brewing could lead to so much poetry. You have an amazing way with words, Erika – because you have an amazing way with musing and pondering. This post makes me happy.

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Erika Harris link
4/11/2013 05:41:27 am

That means *a lot* coming from you, Grace. Thank you :-) http://www.consciousblogging.com makes me happy!

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