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#508 From: phethean@...
Date: Mon Dec 22, 2008 11:39 am
Subject: Today's Writing Prompt
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http://arvonblog.org/2008/12/09/sum-yourself-up-in-six-words/

I was inspired by this today - so hopefully it might inspire you also...



hugs
Shani

ps  Thanks for all your best wishes lately - it has been a difficult time and your thoughts have been appreciated.

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#506 From: phethean@...
Date: Wed Dec 3, 2008 11:50 am
Subject: Today's Prompt
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Hi everyone.

Sorry I keep disappearing off after having bursts of writing energy.  Unfortunately my world seems to lurch from complication to complication and in an effort to keep my writing protected from this up and down momentum, I tend to wrap it in bubble wrap and put it on the shelf for a week or so.

So when I emerge again, unfortunately, it is like starting all over again - but I think you all might appreciate not getting a blow by blow account of my world - moaning in the margins was created for a reason !!! 

The Travelling Notebook project is still high on my agenda, and again - when I have five minutes which isn't cluttered by vitally urgent legal statements, or rushing off to hospitals miles away from where I live for duplicated appointments (aaaarrrggghhhh.....), I will get this organised... 

So if you are still with me .....this is the prompt for today....

I have been pondering a lot over the last week (when not trying to sort the universe out...) as to what function celebrities perform in our life?

So my prompt today and one I too am going to write about is... exactly that - define the purpose and reason for the celebrity culture that exists... make up your own celebrity... the challenge is yours to do what you will with.

Best wishes
Shani




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#505 From: greatwesternwriters@yahoogroups.com
Date: Mon Dec 1, 2008 11:55 pm
Subject: Poetry Can, 12/4/2008, 12:00 am
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#504 From: phethean@...
Date: Fri Nov 21, 2008 10:12 am
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"Who we are and what we do, the choices we make, the places, we visit all our informs our writing - giving it depth, tone and more importantly believability"

The above was how I started my notebook entry this morning, a difficult week having flown by - more difficult that normal even by my standards! so I decided to take five minutes and actually write something for me, from me and to me, before I was swallowed up by the events of the day.

I sat back and reflected on the above, admiring my neat copperplate writing, the picture it made on the page of my notebook, contrasting against the cream of the paper - shapes and shades of ink from the previous page tantalisingly showing through - and then realised just how pompous and downright factually wrong the statement is.  The sentence comprises assertions emanating from the controlling element of my personality and doesn't actually take into account the things I have no power over - such as weather, external incidents, health and temper of those around me, economics of the working world - the list is endless.

So my task for the day - which I extend to you - is take the above assertion as your starter and "pad" out some free writing with it.  By pad out, I mean write a paragraph and then leave a large space, move on and write your next paragraph, leave a large space etc... so you are creating thinking room in your writing. 

Then after having written about your world (or ranted as my kids would have said) - go back into the writing, with a differing coloured pen perhaps, and then fill in the gaps writing/contrasting about all the things which were imposed on you (or your character) externally - over which they had no choice...

So for me, this week would have been about clearing my backlog of work, getting some knitting projects done, clearing up my office at home, sorting out some complex responses to an ongoing legal case, writing my blog, finishing off and printing out some coursework, sorting out my CPD points.  A very busy week by anybody's standards, but those were the things I chose to do (well sort of... !!!)

In amongst it though, I was diagnosed with some serious health problems which came as a shock, someone I am very closed to became very distressed about his world - which impacted into destroying all the work I had done on clearing up my home recently - I found I was massively overweight and had to (whether I liked it or not) start attending a gym and diet classes, which I simply don't have time for and my work is out of my control....

and I forgot about all the outstanding stuff I still have to do....

Do you see where I am going with this?  I am sure most of you can relate to the above in some form or another, or find an equally chaotic narrative to write about...   then fictionalise it - expand it into a character - have your character solve the problem, win the day, or just sit down and cry, admitting defeat and self-loathing - your story... your puppets to move about your stage... 

But everyone who reads your story will find some point in it where it is relevant to themselves - so my tale, as outlined above  - for all its conception from inside and personalisation to me, will have believability....

Best wishes
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Date: Sun Nov 9, 2008 5:25 pm
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#501 From: phethean@...
Date: Fri Oct 31, 2008 2:07 pm
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A favourite trick of mine, I thought I would share....

Writer's Block? 


Have a look at the first line of the three novels closest to you.....

Consider - What do they have in common - or not?

Now write your first line - in the style of all or none.....

Consider - why had the author chosen the original opening line?  if you know the novel well - what were they trying to achieve - do you think?    Your opinion here, no right or wrong answer...

Now refer back to your first line - would this work for your line? 

Still stuck?  well you shouldn't be - you have just written something !! so make it bigger...expand.....

write a series of lines if that helps....until something strikes you as gold....

If all else fails, pick up your novels again and read... writing can wait until another day.  One thing I have learned is that you can't force inspiration.

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Shani


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#500 From: phethean@...
Date: Sun Oct 26, 2008 10:44 am
Subject: Writing Prompts and Thoughts
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I have really been quite inspired this week (in between fighting off people who have mistaken me for a nice person who would like to do their job for them - you know the kind I mean !! ) by various elements of popular culture.

First of all, Ian Fleming and his notebooks - leifmotif moment here again...warning...warning... 

I accidentally switched on a replay of a documentary which ran on the BBC this week and there were NOTEBOOKS - loads of them, scratchy little red ones with only lines and snatches of conversation... my hero after all....   Quantum of Solace was one of those little scribbles and - hey presto - there is a film !!.   I am sure more came in between but it doesn't give rise to the money shot of Joanna Lumley diving scantily clad into an azure rockpool - the whole image is a little lost on me, I am more fascinated by how she keeps her eye makeup on. 

I look like a panda after having a few sly tears, how on earth does she do that....?

Anyway, I degress....

the second is a book I am reading - well have now finished.

"Divas Don't Knit" by Gil McNeil.

Now this book I quite happily accept isn't going to make a nobel prize winner or any other one - except perhaps in the woman's ASDA section.  BUT it is a thoroughly enjoyable, predictable romp through the world of a person I can associate with.  She is a young woman, who used to be valued in the workplace, had children and knits... a very dumbed down version of the plot, but the best I can do - whilst being shouted at on a Sunday Morning to come down stairs and do something else...

This got me thinking - what was it about the book that I enjoyed so much?  

I could associate with this person's world and empathise with her journey.  The narrative was easy and contemporary and it had associations with things I know about - encounters with Alpha Mums, being "volunteered" for things and knitting being only the three I can confess too !!

So all in all, this was a book that I would be quite happy to have written - so that is obviously the genre I am secretly aspiring to in my reinvented version of an author....

Thought moment - what books are on your bookshelf?  WHY are you drawn to them?  could this be your target audience really - rather than re-writing Tolstoy?   There is little snob value in achievement...

or if you can't face binning your synopsis - which is in fact the same size as a paperback novel - outlining your plans for a saga covering 20 books - perhaps you could just take a break for a month (oh during NaNoWrimo - how convenient ) and try writing something totally different - based on your bedtime bookshelf - just to humour me if you can't find any other justification? 

Just a thought....

Thirdly - well I have taken to knitting in a big way - procrastination, colour, creativity all in one package and as far away from computers as possible..... so whilst knitting I was watching Desperate Housewives - Series 1 - Episode 5 through to 11 to be precise. 

In my defence, before you all email with concerns for my sanity - I was having a really bad day yesterday and decided I just wanted to sit and achieve something - anything -  and this was the only way I could do it and be left alone..  apparently I have the "face" when I am knitting - and it is the kind which deters all others from finding me another "job"....

Back to Desperate Knitters - oohps - Housewives...

Yes it is fairly, well words fail me ---- still fail me.   I don't get the plot and don't recognise half the characters and as for the fingernails... but they do have some really good lines which weave through the dodgy camera shots and the woman with the jammy looking mouth...

So my prompt today... anashamedly paraphrased and re-written for you here...

"As a mother she spent her mornings preparing her husband and her family for their day, during the evening, she was supportive, loyal and an einstein with the homework - but to know the person you had to know what she did with her afternoons......."

So what did she do with the afternoons...?
Or what did he find her doing with her afternoons?

Twist and turn this little gem.... I have written three seperate plot lines - over three paragraphs on three pages - all completely different starting with the above - now you have a try....

Just a quick update on the travelling notebooks - I WILL get this started this week.... inspiration sort of got in the way...... 

hugs everyone - please post comments and thoughts... and any tips that you have found recently to get your pen moving....

Shani


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#499 From: phethean@...
Date: Thu Oct 23, 2008 1:09 pm
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An epidemic is something which spreads without empirical proof supporting the reasons why - or at least the geezer on breakfast TV proclaimed it as such yesterday.

This got me thinking, an epidemic is usually a label attached to something unpleasant or dangerous, such as flu or msra, etc.

What if it was attached to something nice such as - love or payrises...

So I starting writing about that - and whot I wrote really made me laugh, so I suppose it served its purpose and spread a little happiness and exercised my chuckle muscles...

So I pass the idea on to you and would love to hear your thoughts...

Brainstorm the idea and go forth in a flight of fancy

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Date: Sun Oct 19, 2008 11:03 am
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Good morning great scribes...

First of all, apologies for the AOL bit at the bottom of these emails.  I have found a way of sending emails to the blogs/groups to save time in multiple posting, unfortunately you get the adverts as well - which ironically was the reason I left AOL in the first place - hey ho... 

Thank you for your telling me how irritating they are, I too find them quite so - but it is either that and prompts, or a nothing but a creative series of broken promises from me... sorry.

Today's Prompt

"I tell it to the Sea" - is a phrase I half-heard last night -

This made me think - what would I tell to the sea? secrets, dreams, pain, sorry or happiness - but the latter, surely I would declare to the world?

So my question today - what would you tell to the Sea?  or what other place would you share secrets/dreams/aspirations or simply share with?

Would they keep your secret, or would it be theirs for onward transmission?

You choose - your piece of writing... go forth and produce...

and then tell us - if you want to share - either by posting to this thread of linking to the comments.

Best wishes and have a good writing day.

Shani

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Date: Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:55 pm
Subject: Hints and Tips - Notebooks
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I am back on the subject of notebooks again today. 

Notebooks shouldn't be finished products in their own right - you shouldn't approach them with your neatest handwriting and with awe.  They should be the "workhorse" of your writing - your personal point of reference for inspiration, creativity and generally getting you in the "mood" to produce work.  My friend calls is the "twilight zone..." can't think why !!

Notebooks should be the starting points for developing ideas - the keyword here being "developing".  Write a thought down once, then write it down again in a different way, then perhaps a third way.  Revisit ideas from differing perspectives, on different days,in different moods. 

Occassionally review and audit the motifs which emerge repeatedly, looking for a way to transfer them to a piece of writing which will frame them and convey the thought to maximum effect.

A notebook should be part of a "process" - so today, start a fresh page and write about something which has been bothering you and you would like to resolve....

Shani

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Date: Thu Oct 16, 2008 12:05 pm
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"you can safely follow the good advice of a trusted companion without thinking too much about the consequences"

the above is taken from my horoscope for today - the one on google.  I find horoscopes a brilliant source for inspiration.  They are worded so they are relevant to 1/12th of the population so are targeted at being general and specific as a person can want to read into them. 

So - free write for 10 minutes on the above and see where you end up.... 


Shani

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#495 From: phethean@...
Date: Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:59 pm
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Your opening few lines for today: 


For a secret to be a secret - it can only be told to one person at a time...
but to save time and energy of repeating myself,  I always tell my friend Moira first..

Last Friday, was no exception.... I just wish the floor had opened me up when.....



Now carry the story on...  

See you tomorrow...

Shani

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