Friday, February 11, 2011

Love for Writing Week Two

Love for Writing Day Nine

Take time to tickle your curiosity. What aspects of life inspire questions? How can you delve into unknown areas? Where could you explore?

Today ask, "Why?" at every opportunity. Don't become satisfied with answers. Keep "whying" for additional possibilities. Try, ". . .and then what?"

Have fun and write about your search and discoveries. Put Curiosity to work.

 Love for Writing Day Ten


What do you notice in the shadows today? What shapes and shades do you see? How do the spaces turn among them? Will they assist in a story or poem for you?

Love for Writing Day Eleven


A SOUND

SOMETHING UNLIKELY

A NOTION



AN ANIMAL

A TASTE

A QUESTION



A SCENT

AN OVERHEARD REMARK

A BELIEF


Create triads similar to those listed above. After you have created your own sets, draw arrows and play with words for fifteen to twenty minutes. Then take your lists for a walk around the block, to the beach or another natural setting.

Continue to observe the world around you and add to your triads. Find a place to sit, take a breath, read your list and write for fifteen minutes. Permit observations and distractions to take you beyond the obvious into new thought patterns.

You will discover a prose piece or a poem!
Love for Writing Day Twelve

Do you gravitate to a theme or subject to write about again and again?

Investigate these ideas today.

Spin them:

1.  Write the opposite emotions the ideas generate.
2.  Write from an objective observer with a different slant than your own.
3.  Move beyond into new areas in a freewrite.




Love for Writing Day Thirteen

Write from your Funny Bones!

Dave Barry, a universally appealing humor writer, feels humor relates to fear and despair. The series, M*A*S*H, delved into these stressors of life and played with dark humor. Having the ability to add a humorous twist to any tragic situation, Shakespeare must have had strong stomach muscles from chuckling as he wrote. Even scientific research has shown the benefits of laughter in the healing process.

If we didn’t have laughter to keep us buoyant in a world that twirls way beyond our control, gravity certainly would keep us grounded. We need to stimulate our funny bones to release fears and anxieties.

Observe or create a predicament, laugh and write your way through it.


 

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