Light for the Journey: Write Like Jazz: Let the Silence Speak

Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say. ~ Robert Creeley

Good writing doesn’t shout—it listens, bends, and breathes. Like a jazz solo, the magic is often found in the pause before the next phrase, the subtle shift of tone, the line that almost breaks but doesn’t. Writing that moves us is rarely loud—it’s honest, artful, and alive with what’s left unspoken.