Writing / Storytelling ✍️
you’re not writing by yourself. There is a multiplicity of beings who are co-authoring your work.
Whatever you are writing — however academic or poetic, practical or abstract — let in otherness into your creative process.
By opening our writing habits towards newness and unpredictability, we can find that there’s so much more written at the end. Ri... See more
Whatever you are writing — however academic or poetic, practical or abstract — let in otherness into your creative process.
By opening our writing habits towards newness and unpredictability, we can find that there’s so much more written at the end. Ri... See more
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • From Garden to Wild Herbal Meadow
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
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?
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
The Hero’s Journey
“All writing is useless that does not contain a stimulus to activity”?
Quora • What did Nietzsche mean when he said, “All writing is useless that ...
—Nietzsche
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
A quote by Maya Angelou
Your writing prunes ideas in my mind. My writing prunes ideas in your mind.
We visit each other’s psychic gardens—we get nourished, healed, awakened, and mutually directed at growth.
We visit each other’s psychic gardens—we get nourished, healed, awakened, and mutually directed at growth.
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • From Garden to Wild Herbal Meadow
As she lost consciousness of outer things ... her mind kept throwing up from its depths, scenes, and names, and sayings, and memories and ideas, like a fountain spurting.
— Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse