Write a story from you life that fits on exactly one page. It can be a big story or a little one. A story full of drama and excitement, or one that is kind of boring. The story can take place in the past, the present, or the future. It can center on a place, a person, or an event. Before you start to write, put a dot in the middle of the page. As you write, when you … [Read more...] about A Story From Your Life
Memory
Day By Day
How has this day--so far--unspooled differently from the way yesterday did? Changes from one day to the next can depend on the weather, the people you encounter, or your attitude. Changes might stem from the way your schedule works or from unscheduled events. Are you wearing different clothes? Have you eaten different food? Brushed your teeth at the same … [Read more...] about Day By Day
Randomly Reminding
This is an exercise that helps you disorganize your thoughts, and connect them to something new. Write the letters of the alphabet down the left-hand side of the page. Next to each letter, write a word that begins with that letter, the first one that pops into your head. Return to the top and go back through your list. Next to each word write "reminds me of" and write … [Read more...] about Randomly Reminding
Choosing and Choosing
Every time you do something that you could have done differently, you make a choice. Some choices determine our lives. Where to live, whether to change careers, how to frame our inner autobiography. We also make choices without thinking, out of habit. If we make a choice the same way every time, it's still a choice. Fill a page with choices that you have made, big and … [Read more...] about Choosing and Choosing
There’s Always Water Somewhere
Tell a story from your life that has water in it. Which can be any story at all. If you are alive and on this planet, there is water nearby. In your body, for starters, and in other plants and animals. Not to mention lakes, rivers, and the ocean. There's water underground and in the sky. Water runs inside of pipes in a city or a home. It's in what we eat and what we … [Read more...] about There’s Always Water Somewhere