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Webs and Connections

September 15, 2017 By Nancy Casey

Instead of writing sentences and paragraphs, you can write webs and connections.  Write a word in the center of the page and draw a shape around it.  Write down a word for one of the things this word reminds you of, draw a shape around that, and connect it to the first word.  Draw in a third word that you can connect to one of the other two.  Then a fourth word and a fifth, each one connected to something you have already written.

Feel free to be inventive with your shapes and the ways in which you draw the connections.

After you have done this for awhile, you have created a web of connections that can serve as “notes” for a second page.  Choose a small area of that web of connections and expand on it on the second page.

You can expand it by writing about it in sentences and paragraphs.  Or you can expand it by re-drawing it, perhaps with more refinement and detail.

Here is a more detailed version of these directions.

 

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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.

 

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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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