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An Alphabet of Opposites

July 15, 2019 By Nancy Casey

Begin by setting up your page:

  • Draw a line across the top where the title will go. (It’s best to write the title after you have finished writing the page.)
  • Draw a line across the bottom of the page that marks off enough space for exactly one line of writing.
  • Draw 2 vertical lines down the remainder of the page so that it is divided into 3 columns
  • Label the right-hand column “Different.” Label the middle column “Same.” The left-hand column doesn’t need a label.
  • Write the letters of the alphabet down the left-hand edge of the page.

For each letter of the alphabet, write down a word that begins with that letter. Any word.

Next to that word, in the Same column, write another word that is more or less the same as the first word.

In the Different column, write down a word that is somehow different from the other two.

After you have filled up all the columns, in the skinny one-line space at the bottom of the page, write a comment. An observation about the process of filling the columns. A thought that passed through your mind as you were writing down words. Whatever pops into your head and fits into the tiny space allowed.

Finally, give your work a title and write the date on it, too. If you add some kind of illustration, you will be glad you did when you look back at the page later.

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Nancy blogs weekly for the Latah Recovery Community Center, sharing writing ideas that support self-awareness and self-esteem.


 

Writing classes and workshops

I had been looking forward to the 2020 summer season of in-person  Write-For-You workshops at the Latah Recovery Community Center.  Alas.

 

Congratulations to last summer’s students who earned certificates in Fiction Writing, Project Management and Grant Writing.

 

Applause and thanks to those who dropped by the classes just for fun.

 

If you are in recovery and interesting in writing coaching, contact Nancy.


 

Let’s Talk About It

A program that supports reading and discussion in libraries throughout the state of Idaho. Free and open to all. Somehow? Again? At a later date?

 

We are all looking forward to the time when it will be possible to resume these lively book discussions.

 

I’ve served as a scholar for this program for I-don’t-know-how-many years. I have found every book, every library, every group of people to be interesting and stimulating. Every discussion brings new ideas and surprises.

 

I’m confident that this program will evolve so that it can continue to bring Idahoans together through books. We just don’t know how or when that will happen.  Yet.

 

 


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