It is Thanksgiving weekend and we are on a long road trip. During the drive there and back I am writing my weekend post. I am trying to decide which stories to keep and which to ignore. Ideas float around my head, each vying for my attention, hands up waving and jumping up and down saying, “pick me, pick me!” When they are all begging to be heard, it is hard to decide which one to choose. So I write until one becomes bigger than the others. I call this my rambling. It is a healthy spew of words that clutter the mind until I am left with something that has substance. Since it is Thanksgiving, I assumed I was to write about being thankful – but I ended up rambling on and on until a lesson began to appear. A lesson I needed to learn. This first paragraph of this post is actually the last paragraph of that rambling.  I am learning how important it is to rewrite. Just because a paragraph emerges at the end does not mean it can’t be moved to the beginning. Birth order of paragraphs is not important as long as the story is told. Continue reading →