Writing / Storytelling ✍️
Questions to work with when inviting the sacred into your writing practice:
- Prepare your space. Clear the space physically, mentally, and energetically. Is there room for new ideas to come to you, when the area around you is occupied? Bring in objects that will support your practice. I like to light a candle, burn Tibetan incense, put on music that
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Writing as Architecting the Space for the Sacred in Other's Mind
Run fast, stand still. This, the lesson from lizards. For all writers.
Ray Bradbury • Zen in the Art of Writing
Good writing will reflect in your nervous system. While reading, you will be able to focus, and ultimately, calm down. Some parts of you will be soothed, some—activated. And that particular sensation of soothing will come from reading some kind of truth .
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Writing Through Your Body
Made to Stick SUCCESs Model by The Heath Brothers
Simple (KISS)
Rhyme
Hook
Unexpected
Humour / Fun
Postdictable
Concrete
Interactive
Draw visuals
Sensory language: sounds & metaphors
Contrast
CTA
Credible
Emotional
Feelings
Controversy
Stories
Heroes & Villains
Who is this for?
“The first draft of anything is shit”
Ernest Hemingway
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The river's algorithm is simple. At each step, flow down.
For the essayist this translates to: flow interesting.
Of all the places to go next, choose the most interesting.
One can't have quite as little foresight as a river. I always
know generally what I want to write about.
But not the
specific conclusions I want to reach; from paragraph to
paragraph I... See more
For the essayist this translates to: flow interesting.
Of all the places to go next, choose the most interesting.
One can't have quite as little foresight as a river. I always
know generally what I want to write about.
But not the
specific conclusions I want to reach; from paragraph to
paragraph I... See more