{"id":4433,"date":"2024-01-25T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T17:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/?p=4433"},"modified":"2024-01-25T09:02:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T17:02:50","slug":"lost-in-liminal-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/?p=4433","title":{"rendered":"Lost in Liminal Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Liminal <\/strong><\/span><\/em>is defined as the space between ‘what was’ and ‘what next’. Creatives often find themselves in liminal space between projects.\u00a0 The artist subsists on the goal of completing a work. However, once the <\/span><\/span>exhilaration of completion subsides, the void beckons. This is often experienced as deserved and much needed rest, collapse, restlessness, self-doubt, confusion. These are part and parcel of the writer’s journey. Ideas for new work may swarm, but the difficult question arises: What do I feel passionate enough to write, to devote weeks or months to one project? And when I do, will it have a response?
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As a playwright in New York, ideas would find me. A walk on Park Ave, seeing the cover story on the New York Post, where I read the front line: Woman jumps from brownstone killing both herself and her baby! My inborn alarm went off and I knew I had found my next play – not even bothering to read the article. The Myth of Annie Beckman<\/em><\/strong> was born.<\/p>\n

During a honeymoon in Ireland, a psychic waking vision while visiting a 9th century monastic ruin lured me into what years later would become a romantic\/drama screenplay about reincarnation called Second Chance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Years living in India left fifteen seeds that later blossomed into fifteen short stories set in India. And this month,\u00a0 my eighth book, East and West: Stories of India <\/em><\/strong>is launched in 19 countries.<\/p>\n

What have I learned from my decades of writing life? That from these times of liminality, waiting in the void, is a necessary element of the creative process. To remain open and actively passive, and the idea will come.<\/p>\n

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Liminal is defined as the space between ‘what was’ and ‘what next’. Creatives often find themselves in liminal space between projects.\u00a0 The artist subsists on the goal of completing a work. However, once the exhilaration of completion subsides, the void beckons. This is often experienced as deserved and much needed rest, collapse, restlessness, self-doubt, confusion. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-catherine-ann-jones","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4433"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4438,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions\/4438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}