The Tortoise

[whipchick]

I always watch for the tortoise. The back wall of the writing studio is mostly a floor-to-ceiling window about eight feet wide, one vast sheet of glass holding the Florida scrubland outside. There’s a white dirt road behind a strip of live oaks and sumac and Spanish moss, and once, in the middle of an afternoon workshop, I saw a tortoise stumping

Comments

[adoptedwriter]

Tortoises / turtles are cool! They are one of my totems too! AW

[faerie_spark]

Loved reading this. It makes me crave an escape to an oasis of writers for weeks at a time, as painful, and soul-searching, and soul-sucking, and plodding as it might sometimes be. The first sentence here is perfect - really and truly it is! I wasn't feeling "talismanic shell" though. Talismanic is a delicious word, but, for me, it interrupts the flow and doesn't add new information or insight. Also adore the last paragraph, which nicely wraps it up, while giving us new information and making us wonder.

[eternal_ot]

The transition from outer world to your inner self was smooth...nice analogy. Great read..very relate- able :) *hugs*

[rayaso]

I enjoyed this peek into your life as a writer very much, especially the idea of the tortoise as a muse. I was especially interested in your mixed feelings about a writer's life. Writer's camp sounds like such a great idea for those seriously interested in the profession.

[dmousey]

Hug... ~~~D