Write Beyond Holidaze

Don't let the chaos of the Holiday season cause distress and down time in your writing journey. Incorporate surprise, laughter, and delight into your days of writing and notice what happens to your attitude toward life.  

Take time off from your usual worrying or trying so hard to please everyone else.  Make a list of the five biggest worries on the left side of a sheet of paper.

Opposite each worry write why they never-in-this-world-will-happen.

You'll discover you worry using creative improbabilities not creative reality.

Creative Write:  Write a Dear Child of Me letter.  What would you like to do that's really fun, daring or outright wild? As you write, try to remember your fearless self.

Take a timeout and write yourself into Fun.

Language Beyond Speech

"Egrets soar in noseless flight or tack, like a regatta, the sea green grass, they are seraphic souls."   

                 - David Wolcott

David Wolcott claims, "The perpetual ideal is astonishment." 

Language beyond speech prevails.

Let writing astonish today . . . just for YOU!

 "The egrets are the color of waterfalls and clouds. " - David Wolcott

Beak moves into the curves of neck.

Energy dips and rises into wings of wonder.

Write for yourself today.

Lift off, flutter, flap those wings and soar!




Let the blur occur.

Life Story Writing

When we read autobiographies, which stories intrigue the most? The Hero who solves it all? Probably not. 

Do we notice the individual who combines heroic facets with loser traits? Applaud for the loser who finds winning qualities? We like the texture of fragility and results.

When you write aspects of your life story, consider details and ways to mold the great and the gooney. Add habits you'd like to alter as well as your strengths. Show the failures and their potential for choices.

Avoid sharing a one-dimensional approach. Choose to describe your tragic nature, a sensitivity, your passivity, your loyalty, and duplicitous nature. Write about the poor choices and lack of communication skills. Add the anger and frustration you feel to show how struggles evolve.

Avoid adjectives. Reveal your life by showing events and behavior rather than telling the reader what to expect. Encourage your writing to unfold like a camera's view.

Ask someone to make realistic comments about your personality. Embroider them into your presentation.

Add mentors and individuals who challenge your process.

Explain how you master your life through its negativity and opportunity.  

Let the lowlights shine through to accent the positive.