It’s National Talk Like A Pirate Day!
So, mateys….
No, no, I won’t put you through an entire prompt of pirate talk. Although, I know a few of you would like that.
However, I will say, if you’re not doing your morning pages, I ought to have you all swab the decks or throw you in the cabin with the captain’s daughter….
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Sunday is our first workshop back after out Summer Sabbatical. We’re at the North Bend Library Meeting Room, 3 p.m. Please RSVP if you will attend. Also, if there’s some burning question/topic you want to discuss, please let me know today, so I can work it into the lesson plan. Bring a notebook & pen or your laptop. If you have things to brag about writing-wise, be sure to be prepared to share!
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So today we continue with our working together on The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron.
I will give you five of the 10 tasks she has planned out for you in this chapter six.
1. Natural Abundance: Find five pretty or interesting rocks. I enjoy this exercise particularly because rocks can be carried in pockets, fingered in business meetings. They can be small, constant reminders of our creative consciousness.
2. Natural Abundance: Pick five flowers or leaves. You may want to press these between wax papaer and save them in a book. If you did this in kindergarten, that’s fine. Some of the best creative play is done there. Let yourself do it again.
3. Clearing: Throw out or giveaway five ratty pieces of clothing (my note: if they’re ratty — toss them, don’t donate them; if they are gently worn, then definitely donate them!)
4. Creation: Bake something. (If you have a sugar problem, make a fruit salad) Creativity does not have to always involve capital-A art. Very often, the act of cooking something can help you cook something up in another creative mode. When I am stymied as a writer, I make soups and pies.
5. Communication: Send postcards to five friends. This is not a goody-two-shoes exercise. Send to people you would love to hear from.
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And now for your moment of Writing Zen:
“As an artist, it is central to be unsatisfied! This isn’t greed, though it might be appetite.” ~Lawrence Calcagno
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What did you Write today?
~Casz
Casondra Brewster
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“But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.” ~ Lord Byron