Published Author Ellis Elliott: Why I Launched Bewilderness Writing

Welcoming Wonder!

Welcome inside my very own curiosity cabinet filled with the artifacts of me, all with the intention to explain who I am, why I’m here and why you should read this. It’s an odd assortment of worn leather ballet shoes, imaginary friends, reams of meandering writing, an old trunk filled with paper treasures from my children, and a miniature magical forest filled with talking animals.

Chaos and Glitter

Who am I? That’s a rather daunting starter that is usually filled with an answer more about what I’ve done than who I am. What I did was have 3 beautiful sons, get divorced, remarried, added 3 more beautiful sons, one of whom is severely disabled and changed how I see the world. What I’ve done is teach HS English for a lightning flash before teaching dance the rest of my career (30 plus years), eventually running my own studio. What I’ve done is become certified and teach yoga. What I’ve done most recently is train to be a creativity coach. What I’m doing now is finishing my Master’s in Creative Writing at Queens University with a focus on poetry.

Who I am is an infinitely more complicated yarn ball of chaos and glitter. I am continually pursuing answers for this ongoing question in a variety of ways. I do it through creative expression, whether it is writing, moving, or cutting and pasting. Or, it might be through books, story, or relentless research on inane subjects.

Delving Deeper

Existentially, let’s not get into it. I am here on this blog to delve more deeply into some of my favorite things and hope that you might join me. Things like words; the turn, use, spun web of words in all forms and fashions. Specifically, how getting pen to paper and making a mess can be the beginning of a bewitching adventure, taking you to all sorts of places you never knew existed. My true wish is to not take myself or the writing too seriously, to let there be a thing called fun to go along with craft and exploration.

Also, things like the ginormous felled trees on our creative path, like procrastination, inner-critic, and overwhelm, all of which I, unfortunately, know intimately. But that intimacy gives me a great tool-kit to draw from to help others.

Finally, my hope is to dive into many aspects of creativity, not just our stories and the power of our words, but creativity itself. I want to get to know how it works and when it doesn’t, how it appears in clever disguises all over the world, and how to lure it out of the cave it found to live in, for many of us, when we were children,

You have a story to tell

Maybe you have a story you need to tell, maybe you know something about creativity, or maybe creativity is an elusive sprite you can’t quite get hold of. Wherever you are coming from I am here to play with the answers, because I certainly don’t know them, but I am more than willing to play in order to try and find some, to lead you on a path where you find the answers on your own.