You are here at exactly the right time - Lesson #18 - 42 Days of Writing Passionately

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Lesson #18 - 42 Days of Writing Passionately

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Dear Writers,

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Passion Point #7 - Place

1.         The setting is a backdrop, a canvas, a
             three dimensional painting.

2.         Each Word-Room has a visceral atmosphere.

3.         Dawn, Noon, Sunset and Midnight pass the
            "window" daily.

Marion’s Passion Point # 7 Every act - be it on stage
or in life or in writing - has it's scene. By using words
I set the mood. My writing dances to the sounds
and beats of Nature's flow and rhythm.

Quote of the Day:

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to
carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my
sunset sky."

Rabindranath Tagore

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Like Tagore said, the perception of our environment
depends on our mental attitude.  As a writer you
start one step before attitude.

With your words you create the environment in
which something will happen. With your description
you give hints to the reader about tempers and
actions to expect.

You do this with setting a scene. The word scene
comes from the old Greek. They called the stage
in theatre, where the acting took place, "the skene."

And so the word was passed down to us, on one
hand meaning a division of an act of a theatre
play - on the other every setting our eyes get
hold of and see. There are even more ways
to use this word.

My favorite is from the theatre context. I remember
sitting in school, reading Shakespeare's Macbeth
and learning the term of the sympathetic
background. In Macbeth several times three
witches appear. They are always introduced
by thunder alone or by thunder and lightning or
sometimes even by mist.

This is to create a spooky atmosphere. The
background – the scene – corresponds to
what is happening.

One night the king, Duncan, is murdered by Macbeth.
In the minute before the crime is discovered one of the
fellowmen of Macbeth, describes the past night – the
night in which the murder was performed – as follows:

“The night has been unruly: where we lay,
Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say,
Lamentings heard i' the air; strange screams of death,
And prophesying with accents terrible
Of dire combustion and confused events
New hatch'd to the woeful time: the obscure bird
Clamour'd the livelong night: some say, the earth
Was feverous and did shake.”

This is from Act II, Scene III, Macbeth.

With this the gloomy mood of that night is well
described and what an impact it had on people.

The stage is set for the messenger to come in
and report of the king’s death.

Would this scene have had the same impact
on the spectators if the sun had shone and nice
little birds were singing?

So with the description of a scene we set a mood,
even before anybody speaks or acts.

We can also be intentional with the place we
create with words - our desk, our office, our
computer - whatever is our special place
for writing.

As we step into the setting in this lesson, know
the setting may be for a fictional piece you are
working on AND it may be the setting for wherever
you write or however you want to create your life.

This setting, the place you write or however
you want to create your life, can have a huge
impact on what you create, how well you create,
and how clearly you are able to communicate.

Virginia Woolf was a proponent of each writer
having "a room of one's own" - which could really
mean any space at all that you have a sacred,
special, set apart place that you can call
your own - where you can craft your writing
and your life.

Now what belongs to the scene?

Of course at first the location.

Is it inside or out?

If inside, what kind of room is it? Small, big? An
entrance hall, a cathedral, a kitchen?

What about the light? Is the sun shining in? A naked
light bulb dangling from the ceiling?

Or, when it is outside, where is it? In a city or far
away in nature, do you see mountains or are you
at the seaside?

What time of day?

What season?

What is the weather like?

Are there buildings?

Plants?

Water?

Do you see animals?

Are there dark clouds predicting a thunderbolt? Or
are there instead tiny little happy clouds sailing the
sky and telling of leisure summer days?

What scene, what setting comes to your mind?
Perhaps you remember a special place? What
would you like to change in it? Or is it already the
way you want it to be?

You decide, your heart decides. See in front
of your inner eye this place you create.

It is your world.

Take a step back and feel the atmosphere. 

Prepare to Write:

Let the words flow. Let the mood and tone
present themselves by your assembly
of words.

Start with the words: In the scene there
is….

Please move your pencil or pen across
the page (or your fingers on the keyboard)
until you hear me request you stop
(or if you are doing this without audio,
begin with a shorter period of time such
as two to three minutes).

In the scene there ….

If your pencil, pen or fingers slow down
before the end of the time, add this to your prompt:

And to that special scene belongs …

Integration:  Choose a place you can
easily reach, it may even be the view
out of your window. Observe what it looks
like at different times. How the change
of light and weather changes the
atmosphere.

What else changes? Even the number
of items You see, can influence the scene.
How does the scene change? Use your
observations to create different settings. 

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Comments

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Thx! :)