The Truth About Lightning

The first process in the generation of lightning is the forcible separation of positive and negative charge carriers within a cloud or air...

--Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia

Eh??? Yeah, I know, what does that have to do with our lovely little world?

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Well, as a follow-up on my meandering post on falling into the light, I thought we'd chat a bit about the complicated beauty of lightning. That's what it feels like to hit gold while you're revising a story. You've worked for hours, days, weeks to get the draft done. You know it's not what you want yet, so you keep digging. Negative thouhts keep piling on those you've already beaten away.

"You CAN make this good," you say with as much positive energy as you can muster.

"Um, have you looked at this CRAP lately?" negative-and-not-giving-up counters.

"Yeah, well, I'm not stopping, so there!!" Okay, at this point you're sounding pretty childish, but it's the inner child that LOVES lightning, right (even if you're also kinda afraid of it, the power and beauty of that amazing flash of light sucks you in every time).

Then if you keep going, as I am today even if my flash is still hiding amidst the 300 pages of drivel I'm pouring over...one day...FLASH!!!! The positive clashes with the negative...the energy splits just right...and you hit on something amazing.

The key I think, in life and in writing, is to keep going--no surprise there, since I rant about this all the time--but also to see the negative energy as necessary and vital to the end result. Without the negative, the positive charge couldn't produce such an amazing show. If you use negative thoughts to challenge yourself to keep digging for the light, to find positive energy to counter it, then you've got it made!!! It's only a matter of time before something beautiful happens ;O)

I'm away this morning to recharge my positive side. Hope you take a few minutes to do the same. Then off we'll go, fighting for the lightning that makes the world such an amazing place!!!