Writing and old age part II

What makes some people creative?
What makes some people who never wrote a word suddenly discover their creativity?

Reading about writing in an old age made me think about this subject that is so intriguing and so vague at the same time.

If you can make a group of 90 year old man and women in a nursing home connect with poetry, of all forms of writing you can make anyone write. This is a proof that we all have that light inside us waiting to be lured, waiting to show and reward us with hours of pleasure.

All it took in the book that I am presenting was someone who believed in the validity of the experience and was willing to take the time and thought to make things happen. To see beyond the barriers of age, physical obstacles, and lack of experience and truly believe that the creative spark is always present and all it needs is an opportunity.

I learned from this book few very important lessons;

1. Everybody can write.

2. We all seem to have an innate need to communicate our feelings and writing adds an additional weight.

3. Writing can be done in many ways, and dictating my thoughts to someone else, as forced and strange it might seem, is a form of writing.

4. Collaborative writing, writing to the simplest prompts, writing about personal experiences no matter how small or insignificant, these are just few examples of the endless ways that can be used to bring out the writer in us. All are worthy.

5. The power of the writing group cannot be overrated. Having a supportive audience, hearing your writing read aloud, receiving a feedback. The dynamic of this process adds an extra dimension to the experience.  

6. If writing works for adults of all ages and walks of life it should be embraced as a way to increase well being and inner health.

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