Journal about your favorite activities growing up during the dog days of July.

Have you tried the Artist's Way?

Here’s a weekend quote to journal about:

“Do not fear mistakes,
there are none.”

~ Miles Davis

The gist of it is simple. I give you the start of a line/story and you continue on. This week:

It all started with a rash on my…

Watch this video documentary from 1995 on reincarnation. This clip is 9 minutes long and if you get into it there is also a part two and three which I’ve linked below but I think there is enough here to get your ideas forming into a story, article, or journal:

Some ideas to get you started: write about a woman who believes she was murdered in a previous life; write about a man who’s job it is to debunk reincarnation claims; write about two people who have been reincarnated as lovers for over 400 years; write about a seven year old girl who has memories her current family knows she couldn’t have experienced in this life; write a non-fiction piece on your own experiences with reincarnation or your views on it.

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Topic Links
* part two of video
* part three of video

Posse

For the poetry writers. Your topic is: holding hands with someone you care about.

Your form is: free verse.

Study the image for a few minutes then write about it.

Tunnel Photo By Colin Gregory

tunnel image copyright Colin Gregory, flickr

Journal about your ten all time favorite recipes. Include why you like them, the first time you had it, how often, and where the recipe came. Be sure to include descriptions of the food using your sight, sense of smell, and taste.

Here’s a weekend quote to journal about:

“Courage is resistance to fear,
mastery of fear — not absence of fear.”

~ Mark Twain

The gist of it is simple. I give you the start of a line/story and you continue on. This week:

For my mother, sweat stains on silk was a catastrophe. For me, the earth would have to crack open and a giant…

Set your timer and for the next fifteen minutes and write something using these twelve words. The order of the words can be switched around as necessary. The choice of whether you write fiction or non-fiction is up to you.

  • dangerous
  • exist
  • cool
  • arguments
  • apple
  • fragments
  • languish
  • differ
  • style
  • surrounded
  • vacation
  • bullet

Barefoot

For the poetry writers. Your topic is: places that you have been

Your form is: A list. Not just any list. They must relate in some way other than the obvious (the topic I’ve given you pretty much relates but see if you can find another relation as you write) and the list must be in full sentence form, not in one word format.