A Prayer for Writers

Acclaimed novelist Christopher Isherwood once wrote the following prayer for writers that is as relevant for 2008 as it was when he penned it in 1940:“Oh source of my inspiration, teach me to extend toward all living that fascinated, unsentimental, loving and all-pardoning interest which I feel for the characters I create. May I become identified with all humanity, as I identify myself with these imaginary persons. May my life become my art and my art my life.”

As this writer embarks on a particularly ambitious year (publication of my first novel and completion of a new novel), I am especially grateful for Isherwood’s inspiring words.

Happy New Year to one and all.

Karen Harrington is the author of the soon-to-be-released novel, JANEOLOGY, the story of one man’s attempt to understand his wife and her sudden descent into madness. Follow this new author’s writing journey here at HerCircle Ezine throughout 2008.