Experience for the Writer

Catchy title, right?

What are experiences for the writer? All of them. Now, you have to decide how to write about them. Experience is not the only thing you need. You need to feel the experiences and know how they change you so you can take that knowledge to the page and make it interesting to the reader.

It is more than, "I went to the store". What did you do there? Who did you see? What was said? Who said it? When you ask these questions, you have to answer them. You are not the only one that can learn from you did, said and who you did it with.

A good story has more than a beginning, middle and an end. You need specifics. You need love and laughter.

For all of this you need experience. Experience life and all its light and shadows, and then show us about it.

Beauty

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Aging is beautiful. Some age beautifully. We don't look the same at 50 as we did at 20 and really, who wants to? We earn our wrinkles and our age spots. Too much sun and maybe too many worries, but we stay out of the sun and the worries resolve themselves over time. The wrinkles remind of when we laughed and cried from that laughter. The sun spots or age spots or just spots, came from a good time in the sun or laughing with a toddler when they first went to the ocean and felt the sand wash from under them.

What seems to get more beautiful as we age is our acceptance of what is and is not. We accept that we can no longer do cartwheels. . We no longer spend hours trying to fit into the latest fads of food or clothing. We know what works for us. We also know which people will bring drama and which peace and how to choose which when. We accept people for what they are, where they are.

The beauty of life is experience.