Archive for April, 2008
« Previous EntriesToday’s Take Action Prompt: Investigate a Story
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008Put on your journalist or researchers hat and go out to investigate a story. Think of a topic that interests you. An example could be French cooking – what do you want to know? You can investigate when it started, who made it famous or the best restaurants in your town. Once you have chosen [...]
If I Were an Alien
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. ~ Kilgore Trout, (Philip Jose Farmer), “Venus on the Half Shell” Scientists think the possibility for life in the universe does exist. The evidence for other planets that could sustain life increases as our technological advances find more and more planet like objects. In the remake [...]
Today’s Take Action Prompt: Choose One Goal
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008Choose one goal. Make it a big goal. Don’t wimp out now. Or, choose many creative goals you would like fulfilled. Support is available in this monthly column and online course. © 2008 Sandra Lee Schubert www.writing-for-life.com
In Celebration of Life
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. ~ Floyd Dell In America we are tormented by the calendar. We are obsessed with filling in our days with something. I took a week off to do nothing and I did not do it well. I was tired and rest was on [...]
Today’s Take Action Prompt: Visualize
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008Visualize: Image what your life will look like with dreams fulfilled. How do you look? How do you feel? Visualizing helps draw the desired result closer to you. Write the story of your goal fulfilled. Is it a review of the book/movie/play you finally wrote? Put lots of detail in there. Describe picking up your [...]