I came across this quote today and, since it made me stop and think, I thought I should share it.

‘It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellow: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.’

These words come from Vita Sackville-West (The Hon Lady Nicholson), the English poet, novelist and gardener who wrote from 1917 - 1960.

Writing Trigger

So the question is, what moment today are you going to clap the net over?