“The distant ring of the easy rider”: find your voice

Or we might say, “of the easy writer”! Have you ever had the thought, “I need to find my voice?” Here’s the trick to finding your voice as a writer: stop trying to “write well” and just be easy on yourself. Let your imagination take the lead and write messy! Mess is where the energy and the originality come from! Find your voice by working with our writing prompts (over 100 on YouTube and a daily prompt on Instagram @imaginativestorm), and, as we do every Saturday in our Prompt of the Week gathering, set a timer for 10 minutes. Join us one Saturday! it’s free and the Zoom link is on our homepage: click here.

Opal Keen wrote this lovely ode to adventure in 10 minutes, prompted by the image on the cover of this blog post.

The distant ring of the easy rider was relentless and long in the wind. 

 “Oh, dare we?” 

A life well lived includes momentarily to be free as the Honda honey of a self-conscious actor with hunky sunglasses. 

He? Trying too hard. Her? 

 “Take me!”  

Open toes, precious cargo, too hip for nothing, floating on the momentum of 

 “Yes, you.” 

 “Smoke that baby, you weathered shimmer-handler. It’s the Age of Aquarius and the wheels turn.  Are we moving?” 

My Navajo granny, with her perfect tsiiyeel, in pedal pushers on a vintage motorcycle.   

Driving down the highway, a barefoot angel. 

In passing, the taste of delight on her face. 

 Knowing that for lifetimes, she would carry around the memories of moving on the road to everywhere. 

Coming in November 2022: Write What You Don’t Know: 10 Steps to Writing with Confidence, Energy, and Flow by Allegra Huston and James Navé, founders of the Imaginative Storm method. Click here to pre-order.

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