[bksvol-discuss] Writer's Practice Group Announcement
- From: Mayrie ReNae <mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pat@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:16:19 -0800
Hello Everyone,
Last night's meeting of The Writer's Practice Group was a discussion
of the use of
Imagery. You can find an archive of the meeting in mp3 format on the
Friends Of Bookshare
Web site at
http://www.friendsofbookshare.org
The next meeting of The Writer's Practice Group will be on Wednesday,
November 28, 2007, at
6:00 P.M. pacific, 7:00 mountain, 8:00 central, and 9:00 eastern
time, in the Friends Of
Bookshare Classroom. The direct link to the classroom is
Friends of Bookshare Class Room:
http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs0f1c528bd81b
I look forward to seeing you there. Below are some writing topics
to help inspire
you in your daily writing practice, and guidelines for sharing your
writing at the next
meeting.
If you need to contact me, my e-mail address is also below.
Have a great holiday, and have fun writing!
Peace,
Mayrie
mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx
NEXT WEEK'S WRITING TOPICS
Choose one of the first three topics to bring to next week's
meeting. These three topics
are especially designed to help you to focus on using
imagery. Remember to keep the piece,
or part of a piece that you bring to share to something that can be
read aloud in five
minutes or less, about 1000 words.
1. Write about a bus or train station, or an airport. Try for
fresh and appropriate
imagery. Choose any point of view, yours, or perhaps that of a
character you are working
with lately.
2. Here is a list of common objects and actions. Use them to create
some very short, unique
and appropriate images. Clouds, moon, ice cream cone, dead trees
lining a parkway, a broken
sidewalk, a faded pair of blue jeans.
Walking down the street, going home, eating a very crisp apple,
falling asleep in school,
waking on a very cold morning, changing gears on a ten-speed bike.
3. Begin with the phrase "I remember" and start writing. It doesn't matter
whether you stick with one memory or list several. You can retrieve memories
from as far back as childhood (or past lives!) to as recently as
yesterday. If you get
stuck just keep repeating the phrase "I remember," in writing,
until something
else forms in your consciousness. Don't even be concerned with the
authenticity of
the memory. Just record whatever comes to you. Memory is full of
sensory images, find them
in your memories.
4 Non-memories may involve parts of the past you have difficulty recalling.
They may include what has been absent from your life: I don't remember
having my own bedroom. They might even be humorous or sarcastic: I
don't remember ordering a blizzard for the day I was supposed to fly to the
Bahamas.
This time, begin with the phrase, "I don't remember," and fill up a
page. If you
draw a blank at any point, repeat the phrase "I don't remember," in writing,
until something else forms in your consciousness. Notice if one of these non-
memories suggests a section of a piece, an experience for one of
your characters, or
perhaps a topic to write about. Notice what subjects of
non-memories emerge: are
they the same themes you often write about? If not, further explore
one of the
new ones some other time.
5. Write on any topic that has been nagging at you to explore it.
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