“Everybody
walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the
ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.” - Orson
Scott Card
Walking On The Beach by Vera Kratochvil |
Discovery
is something that I look forward to every day. My mind dreams
constantly of finding something new. A possibility, a hope, a unique
object, a memory, a future... I grasp at the thrill of discovery,
sending life through my veins. With the possibility of a story, I feel
happy. The amazing thing about discovering a story, is that it can come
in many different ways. One that comes to me, whispered by the wind, or
thrust upon me unexpectedly. Sometimes pleasant, sometimes not.
A story can be lived, written, sung, told, felt, dreamt or yearned for.
That is what is so amazing about discovering them. Like Orson Scott
Card said, we walk past stories everyday. The person sitting next to us,
they have a story. The penny we find on the sidewalk, it has a story.
The small flower sitting in a spot of dirt, it has a story. We just
don’t know it. But that is the art of a writer. We find stories, dig
them up from the dirt if we must, catch them from the sky as they whisk
by like a shooting star, or just spend a moment listening to a tree,
silently waiting. People walk past us, we find a story. The sun warms
our back, we find a story. That is the call of a writer, discovering
stories.