Friday, September 30, 2011

Threshold of Choice

Often the best writing occurs when a writer arrives on a threshold.  At this place the disorder of experience, emotion or memory meets the ordering power of words.

Recall a memorable experience just before and after it happened.  The threshold forced a choice and took you to another place.

Discover the nature of your own personal theshold.   Place yourself there and write from that dynamic location.

Creative Write:  Write the memory of a choice made "just in time."  Bring the reader into your experience at the threshold moment.  How did the choice move you into a better outcome?  Write again about the other choice you could have made. Where might that decision have taken you?

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