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  "textContent": "_Tuesday, December 30, 2025_\n\nGood morning, The Wonder Fell Way.\n\nWe write. We draw. We sing and strum. We create!\n\nO/\n\nThank you Artists of all kinds for showing the world it's Beautiful.\n\nKeep going.\n\nMore than hobby or craft, it's generosity.\n\nThose quiet moments we spend alone in daydreams, when the busy world does its busy, yearn to be shared.\n\nWe sit quiet, observe our minds, feel with our imagination the world... we feast on dreams.\n\n> \"Where do you come up with your ideas?\"\n> -Friends Who Don't Consider Themselves Creative But Are Always Quite Busy\n\nWe stare at walls, we do the dishes, we gather dreams.\n\nAlone time... introspection is all part of the process of Art.\n\nThe best dreams come in quiet safe places,\nAlone, or with friendly trustworthy faces.\n\nOur dreams are beautiful; that's why they're worth sharing.\n\nBut it is easy to be lulled into a lullaby of idleness by them.\n\nThis is why it's important to have a practice set up: to develop the habit of making.\n\nThat means allotting time to wander, to daydream, to be idle.\n\nRemember gathering is part of the process, too.\n\nEveryday doings: laundry, washing dishes, showering; are great times to gather dreams.\n\nYour body is comfortable with the tasks.\n\nUnless you jog everyday, a walk is always better than a run for gathering dreams.\n\nYour body knows what's required.\n\nSo there's no deliberation required.\n\nThis is another, perhaps the most important, reason for developing a practice. Your body gets comfortable with the process of writing, of drawing, of singing and strumming. And because it's comfortable dreams come easy to fill the craft.\n\nJust show up around the same time everyday and make something. After sometime the dreams will come.\n\nWhen we try, when we force, the trying and the forcing go into the work and are shared with the audience.\n\nIt's disingenuous somehow. Like you don't believe it's good. That disbelief, then, goes into your creation.\n\nCut it out.\n\nShow up.\n\nRemember you love making and make!\n\nWrite a simple sentence. Draw a stick figure. Sing a scale. Get into the rhythm of making.\n\nWriters often talk about the different ways of making a story. There's two camps: Plotters and Pantsers.\n\nPlotters make a map and follow it. Pantsers sit and write by the seat of their pants.\n\nThese are actually the same process; it's only a matter of trust and timing.\n\nStories all work in a certain way. There are plenty of books and courses to show how.\n\nThe writer makes a character and then takes them through the certain ways of a story.\n\nThe metaphors and details are all that's new.\n\nWe can make those before we start writing (plotter), or while we write (pantser).\n\nFor me, I make a mental note (sometimes written) of \"this happens then this happens then this happens...end scene,\" just a short list before I write each scene. A quick plot to get my pants comfortable.\n\nWhy get into the car if you don't know where you're going?\n\nThis works for all forms of writing and Art. Know where your Art is going and know the trip to be worth the ride. Your enjoyment of your creation is infectious.\n\nDo you recall driving backroads when the sky through the trees turned a beautiful shade of you-didn't-know-skies-came-in-that-color?\n\nBring back that feeling while you write if you want your writing beautiful.\n\nJust be in the feeling of what you want to share, then be sincere.\n\nEnthusiasm is always a great feeling to have while creating; it gets viewers excited to see your work, and to be alive.\n\nSun's up. Clear, cool day in December.\n\nThanks for reading, work some today, and make wonderful this wonderful day.\n\n#### Wynn\n\n+he Ghos+\n\nBrought to you by the emoji of the day: 🕵️ __sleuth_or_spy__\n\nSame Prompt🤔: __Create a poorly drawn stick figure drawing of a guy and his dog sitting looking at a laptop computer.__\n\nImage courtesy of Google Gemini, Some Doodling Artists, and +he Ghos+, December 2025Image courtesy of Ms. Copilot (MAI), Some Doodling Artists, and +he Ghos+, December 2025 (Really Reach Out)",
  "title": "Developing a Practice",
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