FILL: Nano nono's #16?

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Excitement, zest, gusto -- go for the gold?

Are you all watching the Asian sports thing going on in China? Lots of athletes, doing all kinds of athletic stuff. And also flubbing here and there, and you can see their faces fall. But one of the men just fell off the horse -- the single bar, with two handles in the middle, where you pretend your body doesn't have any weight as you walk on your hands? He fell down in the middle of his routine. And calmly walked over, put some more chalk on his hands, walked back to the horse, raised his hands? and continued. And when he finished, he had a big smile on his face. Not sure what kind of score he got, but it looked as if he was happy with himself.

And that's the thing. Over here http://community.livejournal.com/writercises/145016.html there are some bits and pieces from Ray Bradbury daring you to get emotional about your writing, to put some zest, gusto, feeling into it. Get excited, get back up on the horse, and see what happens.

If you cry, if you laugh, if you smile while you're writing? your reader may just join in, too. And as that old song reminds us, "When you're smiling, the whole world smiles with you." Just imagine capturing all those smiles in your book! Go for it.

Write.