Archive for March, 2008
Today’s Take Action Prompt: Become a People Watcher
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008Observe: Become a people watcher. Look at how people move. Notice the color of their hair. Imagine them as children. Do you think they were happy? Do they look sad now? Pay attention to how people interact with each other. Look for the small movements. The way a man touches a woman’s face. How children [...]
Family History - Making the Past Present
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.” ~ Hermann Hesse Swiss (German-born) author (1877 - 1962)
What is your history?
A narrative of events or a story, your particular history is unique. One perspective does not define a family history. If you can relate [...]
Today’s Take Action Prompt: Writing With Your Heart
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008If your writing is not interesting to you, it will not be exciting to anyone else. Take some time to think about what you would like to really write. What makes your heart beat faster when you think about doing it? Write with your heart and meeting deadlines will be worth the effort.
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What Do We Believe?
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008“Creativity is…seeing something that doesn’t exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.” ~ Michele Shea, Author(1992)
Seeing is just not seeing. We grow up in the same families and still our memories are different than a sibling. Ten people witness a [...]
Today’s Take Action Prompt: Movie of Your Life
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008Try writing an outline for the movie of your life. Would it be a drama or comedy? Maybe your life is a little of both.
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Becoming Alive in Every Sense
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”
~ John le Carre (1931 - )
In Writing for Life: Creating a Story of Your Own, you are asked to become a super hero and to look at the ordinary things in your life with extraordinary vision. In previous columns we discussed how [...]
Today’s Take Action Prompt: Creating Your Own “Tabloid” Story
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008In her essay Bad Writing, Julia Cameron gives us writers the task of going out and buying the tabloids we usually read secretively on the supermarket line. Julia suggests looking over some of favorite titles and creating your own “tabloid” story. “Alien baby is my love child”, “8,000 year old man found buried alive in [...]
The Myth of Time: Improve Your Life One Deadline at a Time
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
~ Douglas Noel Adams, English humorist and science fiction novelist
Before writing I had to find the right music to play. There were the writing books to look through. After all, the experts have all done it before me so I can [...]