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Ask About Your Surroundings

October 1, 2018 By Nancy Casey

Write questions, only questions.  No need to answer them or explain much about them, just write questions. The only requirement about the questions, is that you not know the answer to them already.

Begin with your surroundings.  Write down a question about the very first thing your eye chances upon.  What does your glance happen upon next?  Write down a question about that. Keep going until you fill the page.

If other questions come to mind, questions about things that aren’t in front of you, write them down, too.

When the page is full, draw a picture on it somewhere that shows the answer to one of your questions.

Be sure to give your work a title and write the date on it as well.

Here is a more detailed version of these directions.

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


Looking for an art project that is secretly full of math? Or a math project that results in interesting art? Equilateral Triangle is an Inquiry Pack full of project ideas that will keep you thinking for a long time.


Writing classes and workshops

In-person Write-For-You workshops at the Latah Recovery Center have been suspended for a bit, but you can still do the writing prompts on your own. For more information, about the Write for You program, or if you are in recovery and interested in writing coaching, contact Nancy.


 

Let’s Talk About It

This is a program that supports reading and discussion in libraries throughout the state of Idaho.

Working with the Program Committee, I updated the theme The Humanity of Science and Technology.


Schedule of 2023-24 Let’s Talk About It sessions coming soon!


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