Swimming & Writing

Swimming & Writing

Swimming for me has been a ‘coming home’ experience since I began winning races at age five. Now in my senior years, swimming laps 3 x week never fails to bring me back to life. No longer scuba diving or competing, swimming has morphed into another form of meditation. I prefer swimming in a lane next to other women swimming laps as men tend to be splash-ers. Men swim as though try to conquer the water, a battle with force creating great splashes. Women tend to surrender to the water becoming one with it. No splashes. Of course there may be some exceptions, but generally this is my experience. When I swim laps, there is a mystical experience of dissolving into the flow. Magical and freeing. Being in the zone.

Writing when it is ‘in the zone’ brings the same experience. Not something to conquer or win, but opening to a creative flow and becoming one with the process.
The best is when the story or characters come to life and take over. All I need to do is take the leap, dive and get out of the way so that the story writes itself. The experience is timeless. Pure freedom detached from the daily earthly existence.
Hence swimming laps and writing plays, screenplays, poems, and books are my two favorite things.

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