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Today’s Take Action Prompt: Creating Your Own “Tabloid” Story
By Sandra Lee Schubert | March 5, 2008
In 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 desert”, “Writer’s fear stepping out of the ordinary”, you get the idea. Have fun with it. Create outrageous tales. If you do it with abandon and a sense of fun you should find you are energized and want to return to your work.
Look for ways to expand how you create. If you paint, try coloring with regular crayons or making collages out of found pictures. Create poetry by cutting words out of magazines. Create poetry with found pictures. Creating should be deep, fun, joyous, exciting, and enlivening. Create with your arms wide open and allow inspiration to meet you in all places.
© 2008 Sandra Lee Schubert www.writing-for-life.com
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