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What It Isn’t

May 28, 2019 By Nancy Casey

In order to describe something, your awareness narrows to focus on what you are describing. When you describe what something is not your awareness widens to an infinity of possibilities.

This exercise invites your mind to relax, open up and travel widely.  It’s also an opportunity to awaken your whimsey.

Begin with something: an object in front of you, a memory from earlier in your day, or the first word that pops into your mind.  Write down what it is not. Expand on that thought a little bit if you would like.

Choose a word from what you have just written. On a new line, begin writing about what it is not.

Once you have written a couple of lines, choose a new word from what you have just written.  Begin a new line and write about what it is not.

Continue in that pattern until you have filled a page.

Add illustrations, decoration or doodling to the page as you see fit.  When you have finished, give your work a title.  Write the date on it as well.

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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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