Whether it is a word, a sentence, or a paragraph's worth of writing, the seed of an idea that blooms into a poem or a narrative is a powerful thing. I've been contemplating ideas...imagination...their connections to each other, to the body, to our internal and external relationships. In essence, I've been thinking about how creativity… Continue reading What It Feels Like To Have A Writing Idea
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Something Comes Up
How do you handle the daily unpredictable facts of life that are the Something Comes Up? Let's call 'em SomComUPs. These are the things that derail your glorious, heart-felt, committed-to-reaching-your-daily-goals intrusions like, say, a car issue or a must-have-now from a client or co-worker, or a crap attack post-lunch that sucks what was left of… Continue reading Something Comes Up
Prompt 13 – The Creative Habit: Learn it and Use it for Life, A Practical Guide
Book: The Creative Habit: Learn it and use it for Life, A Practical GuideAuthor: Twyla TharpGenre: Non-fiction - creativityPage: 133Prompt chosen by me for the Yin Writing session this morning. “Creativity is an act of defiance…You’re challenging the status quo. You’re questioning accepted truths and principles. You’re asking three universal questions that mock conventional wisdom:… Continue reading Prompt 13 – The Creative Habit: Learn it and Use it for Life, A Practical Guide
When Stooping to Secure it – Writing Prompts
Because what is the joy if you go alone (from Osho ‘Courage’) Joy is wild part adventure part starlight part peace she needs to expand like breath to be soft like single tears to be hard like torrential rain Joy glistens content that in the shade of learning is the thicket of alone necessary but… Continue reading When Stooping to Secure it – Writing Prompts
VANESSA SHIELDS 