Writing Begins with the Breath by Laraine Herring

Author:Laraine Herring
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shambhala

Touchstones

1. Triggers are behaviors or actions that have a tendency to set you off in some way. Do you know what your triggers are? Make a list of them. Write a scenario in which you are triggered. For example, if you have a tendency to pick up a beer when you feel attacked at the office, write out that scene. Include the person you feel is doing the attacking and you, as yourself, responding to the attack. Be honest. After you have written this scene, rewrite the scene in which you make a different choice. How is the outcome different? Read the new scene aloud. What do you feel when you read it? If you feel tightness or an emotion surfacing, allow it to be with you. Do not try to push it away. Do not try to ignore it or shift the focus of your work. Just allow it to be. Breathe into it, keeping both feet grounded on the floor.

2. Freewrite: “If no one would object, I would . . .” Follow this with: “If no one would object, I would stop . . .”

3. What do you passionately desire from your creative work? When do you feel most alive and inspired? What is the stone that you push uphill, that is, the burden that opposes and resists you in this work? What shadow character sabotages your efforts in this work?

4. What is the emotion you are least in touch with? Draw it. Dialogue with it: Who are you? Where do you live? What do you want? What will happen if I access you? Why have you been so quiet? What do you have to tell me?

5. What themes emerge in your own work? Which one is most compelling to you now? Dialogue with it: Why do I care about you so much? How can exploring you help me? How can it help others? If you could tell me one thing that would help me on my journey with you, what would it be? Write a poem/prose piece around the theme.

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