In 2011 I started studying Literary Grannies.
Back then, I was much more uppity title wise (Women Writers in Literary History was the original working title.)
This is a brief collection of quotes with links back to the original short features on 10 of the 26 Grannies from that first year.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: "The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it."
Prompt: Before you write, think of JOB as your life work. I don't have a JOB someone else pays me to do, I have LIFE WORK where sometimes I create an immediate income and sometimes I don't. My job is to share my message in a variety of ways to inspire artistic rebirth in others. This blog continues to be an example of that - so now, look at the quote and write from this perspective of "real job" not as employee/employer but what action you are called to do.
Prompt: My real job could be described as...... (write for five minutes) and then follow up later in the day with this prompt. "I am enthusiastic to do my 'real job' especially when.....
Elinor Wylie: “I love bright words, words up and singing early."
Prompt: The words I love best include.....(write for 5 minutes)
Octavia Butler: “In order to rise from its own ashes a phoenix first must burn.”
Prompt: To move forward, I need to burn (let go of...) (write for five minutes)
Kate Chopin: “The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
Lucy Larcom: “... it is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.”
Frances E.W. Harper: “Every mother should be a true artist, who knows how to weave into her child's life images of grace and beauty, the true poet capable of writing on the soul of childhood the harmony of love and truth, and teaching it how to produce the grandest of all poems - the poetry of a true and noble life.”
Gabriela Mistral: “Donde haya un árbol que plantar, plántalo tú. Donde haya un error que enmendar, enmiéndalo tú. Donde haya un esfuerzo que todos esquivan, hazlo tú. Sé tú el que aparta la piedra del camino.”
Marietta Holley (the Female Mark Twain). “Why, to hear Betsy Bobbet talk about wimmin's throwin' their modesty away, you would think if they ever went to the political pole, they would have to take their dignity and modesty and throw 'em against the pole, and go without any all the rest of their lives.”
Ina Coolbrith:"Tent me within your cool, leaf-latticed house.
Pomegranate bough!
A carpet, sown with blossom-rubies, spread,
A queen might tread.
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) “Writing. Love is writing.”
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Julie Jordan Scott has been a Life & Creativity Coach, Writer, Facilitator and Teleclass Leader since 1999. She is also an award winning Actor, Director, Artist and Mother Extraordinaire. She was twice the StoryTelling Slam champion in Bakersfield. She leads Writing Camp with JJS & this Summer will be traveling throughout the US to bring this unique, fun filled creative experience to the people wherever she finds the passion & the interest.
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