[bksvol-discuss] Re: writing topics please
- From: Mayrie ReNae <mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:26:58 -0800
Hi Julia,
Here are the writing topics, and the brief instructions for
completing them.
Enjoy.
Peace,
Mayrie
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.
At 07:31 PM 11/25/2007, you wrote:
Hi Mayrie and list friends. Could someone please email me the
writing topics for last weeks session. I plan to attend this weeks
one and I'd like to have a piece prepared to read to the group. Thanks, Julia
myemail address is
julia.kulak@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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