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Becoming A Bold Writer: Sometimes the Biggest Risk is Taking No Risk at All

 

Becoming a Bold Writer: The Greatest Risk is Taking no Risk at All

If you wonder about that crazy woman there, on the railroad tracks, she is me. I remember as I write there were two occasions I wore that dress and said to a photographer, "You know what I have to do, right?"

On one occasion, that thing I had to do was lie down on the railroad track. Todd Powers of Foxglove Photography  took this photo you see. I did the later editing for the A to Z image.

The other time I simply had to walk into the wild - rarely ventured into Kern River. Let me think if I can somehow manage to work that photo into the rest of these A to Z's.

That being said, both occasions were risky, memorable and perhaps not the most wise thing to do... and yes, in these cases, worth it. I can't guarantee anything, though. You'll need to choose your own risks for yourself.

Quotes

“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”

Erica Jong

“Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."

Katherine Mansfield

 “To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole.”

 Margaret Atwood

Questions

What risks have you taken as a writer? If you are a fiction writer, what risks have your characters taken? Write about your risk-taking and risk-creating.

What risks have you taken this week as a writer?

What risks have you taken today as a writer?

Lists

Make a list of 3 - 10 risks you would like to take as a writer. What is stopping you from taking them?

 Bonus: Choose one risk and take a first step towards risking. Today. Right now, if possible.

 Make a list of 3 - 10 risks you wish you had taken. Write about the “what happened” if you had risked it, both in a good way or in a bad way. (I took a creative risk today and it turned out awful. In fact, it didn’t even feel like a risk until I did it wrong. Thank goodness for blog material, right?”

Traditional Writing Prompts:

When I think of an 'entry level' risk, I...

When I take a profound risk, I....

When a risk doesn't "pay off" what do I make it mean?

One of the most important lessons I ever learned from taking a risk was....

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"You've Won the Lottery!" and other April Moon Nuances

This blog post was inspired by a prompt from my friend, Kat McNally, who is hosting April Moon 2014.

I wrote it in a five minute meandering stint of word-love on a fun theme. I hope to write more of these reflective writing pieces - and hope, perhaps, you will join the writing pleasure.

Find out all about April Moon here.

 

Image courtesy of Kat McNally & part of the April Moon Prompting

 

 

NUANCE

Pre-S: this was written stream-of-consciousness style. I apologize ahead of time for grammatical, stylistic and "wow, this makes no sense at all!" errors in advance.

 

I managed to click a photo of my friend in waiting & discovery

Nuance:

 

Subtle and almost unnoticeable unless one is quietly discerning,

Like mid-week, when I had a massage appointment and not only listened to the birds talking to each other, I also sat as nearly still as possible so they would show me their faces and their bodies so I could get to know them just the tiniest bit better.

I watched the Blue Jay, the lowly scrub, squawking up a storm, trying to get her words heard. I noticed after a time how narrow the opening to her mouth was as she rang out her concerns to the other birds (and watchers, like me) in the neighborhood. The sound seemed to come from deep in her belly. This loudness seemed to use very ounce of her energy.

Her squawking seemed to deplete her stores when she was overpowered by the unlikely silent fast wings of a traveling hummingbird.

“Squaw ---- oooops! Out of here!” she seemed to say as they flew near the same branch of the oak tree, hanging her arms out as an upside down cradle. I laughed loudly to myself and the birds from my perch on the front porch of the Queen Anne home.

It was a nuance, I suppose, not only to enjoy getting to revere the song of the Jay, but also to allow myself to experience this waiting not as a chore but as a spiritual practice.

It is subtle and yet enormous when we make the choice to sit with the time of waiting.

We transform the “not yet?!” with the “here I am!” and it is suddenly like hitting the attitude lottery only we are not only the winner of the lottery, we are the one who chooses the winner.

There you have a not so subtle nuance.

Nuance: polka dots and stripes, layered socks, a sweet little girls legs half a world away.

Nuance: five minutes of writing, a quick slice of creativity cut out of my Easter evening as Samuel, Emma and I sit creating separately together. Beth the dog is here, too, the only sound in the room the fan whirring from side to side and a far off dog barking.

Nuance in wonderfulness.

We’ll take it.

Julie Jordan Scott is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy and mixed-media artist  whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives. Watch for the announcement of new programs coming Spring, 2014 and beyond. 

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Q is for Quiet: The Bold Writer from A to Z:

Welcome to the Bold Writer from A to Z:

My hope is you will find some inspiration from these prompts and quotes. Even if you don't use them now, perhaps later you will return. Know even in reading them you will become more bold both in your writing and life.

Quotes for Quiet:

“Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little. Now tongues work all day by themselves with no help from the mind.”

Toni Morrison

“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”

Baba Ram Dass

“I hold onto quiet, like some hold onto a great new pair of name brand jeans found at a surprisingly low price in a department store. I don’t care about those jeans at all, I care about the quiet. I want to somehow spread the good news of silence, how it can wrap you up in a fertile new imaginative view, your new world view, the world is becoming how you want it to be because you have learned the joy of quiet and the honor of silence.”

Julie Jordan Scott

Questions:

What can you do to craft more silence into your day?

Are you able to enjoy quiet? If not, what is something you can do to create a better relationship with it? If you enjoy quiet, how can you help others in your family who don't enjoy quiet understand your need for it?

Lists

Make a list of 3 to 5 places you can go to experience quiet -

Make a list of tasks/reasons/people that barricade you from the silence -

Make a list of 3 to 10 new ways you would like to explore quiet.

Traditional Writing Prompts:

When I am quiet, I….

Quietness is…..

When I read the words of the desiderata “Go placidly in the midst of noise and haste and remember the peace there may be in silence….” what comes up for me is…

 

The A to Z Blogging Challenge involves creative bloggers from all across the world who cover a wide gamut of topics from "whatever pops into my daily life" to infinittesimal details about unique and varied subjects. To check them out - visit The A to Z Challenge Blog. 

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Julie Jordan Scott is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy and mixed-media artist  whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives. Watch for the announcement of new programs coming Spring, 2014 and beyond. 

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P is for Persistence: The Bold Writer from A to Z

Thank you to those of you who are returning after my blog was down for about twenty-four hours. Typepad had some sort of attack which I don't understand at all.

Anyway - I'm grateful you are here and reading.

There are so many P words I could have chosen: Purpose, Passion, Presence… and the much less sexy word “persistence”, which is the one I am going to stick with for today.

Quotes

“ You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”  Maya Angelou

“Hardships make or break people.”
― Margaret Mitchell

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”
― Helen Keller

I also discovered how many quotes were about both courage and persistence.

Questions:

What was your first exposure to persistence?

What was your first exposure to persistence laced with courage?

How do you relate persistence to being a writer?

 Lists:

Make a list of 3 to 10 (or more) examples of persistence in literature, movies or biographies

Make a list of 3 to 10 times in your life when you have been persistent. What happened next?

What did you make the results mean?

Make a list of 3 to 10 ways you continue to be persistent as a writer

Traditional Writing Prompts:

I remember my persistence when…

I remember the time _____ showed persistence….

The first rule of persistence is….

                              The A to Z Blogging Challenge involves creative bloggers from all across the world who cover a wide gamut of topics from "whatever pops into my daily life" to infinittesimal details about unique and varied subjects. To check them out - visit The A to Z Challenge Blog. 

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Julie Jordan Scott is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy and mixed-media artist  whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives. Watch for the announcement of new programs coming Spring, 2014 and beyond. 

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O is for Outrageous: The Bold Writer from A to Z

O is for Outrageous: The Bold Writer from A to Z

The first hint of outrageousness often happens when writers call themselves writers for the first time. It feels almost as if there was an out-of-body experience taking place. The red sea parts with a clap of thunder and finally a rainbow appears as the voice boldly proclaims, "I am a writer."

Image Prompt: Choose one of the images presented and add the phrase, "I remember..." free write for five minutes... GO!

Today's adventure in writing will address the glory of being outrageous.

Are you ready? Let's write!

Quotes

“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
―Gloria Steinem

“Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.”
― Gloria Steinem

Questions:

How do you define the word outrageous?

What is something you find outrageous that some others think is mundane? On the other hand, what do you think is mundane that others think is outrageous? Write about this space of mismatched ideas.

Lists:

Make a list of 5 to 10 outrageous actions you have taken in the past.

Make a list of 5 to 10 outrageous actions you have yet to take that you would like to take.

Make a list of 5 to 10 outrageous subjects to write about soon.

Bonus: Begin to write one of them!

Traditional Writing Prompts:

My most outrageous attempt to do something significant was….

I thought I was “way out there” but then I heard the outrageous story about….

And then, if you would like, simply philosophize about the word itself: outrageous or “That’s an outrage!”Questions

 

The A to Z Blogging Challenge involves creative bloggers from all across the world who cover a wide gamut of topics from "whatever pops into my daily life" to infinittesimal details about unique and varied subjects. To check them out - visit The A to Z Challenge Blog. 

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Julie Jordan Scott is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy and mixed-media artist  whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives. Watch for the announcement of new programs coming Spring, 2014 and beyond. 

Check out the links below to follow her on a bunch of different social media channels, especially if you find the idea of a Word-Love Party bus particularly enticing.

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The Joy of Being Misconstrued: On Glittery Bows, Martha Stewart & Therapy Gone Awry

If only the rest of the world knew exactly what I meant at all times! :-)

In my last session with my therapist I allowed myself to get vaguely pissed off at her. I got pissed because I pay her to listen to me and somehow she heard me wrong.

I decided that made her wrong and dammit, I was mad.

“My thoughts are as fractured now when I am leaving as when I arrived!” I said over my shoulder as I walked angrily out the door.

How dare she not work with me to tie it all up in a pretty bow, all Martha Stewarted into place with just the right shades of  purple and pink. The bow would be created from metallic recycled material and somehow glittery stuff made purely of imaginery elements.

As I write this several weeks later I laugh.

Oh, the joy of being misconstrued. I don’t know how she misunderstood me - or rather how she wrote it down in her notes - but I am glad she did.  It reminded me how different I actually allow myself to be even when I deny that reality.

I am so glad to not have things tied up in pretty bows.

Pretty Martha Stewarted bows make me want to be all tied up - not in a good way.

These are the bows made of the just right "this and the oh, did you see that?" sort of matchy-matchy fabric. Reminds me of the stuff at Hobby Lobby, obviously put together by some poor child in a sweat shop in a third world country rather than sorted and stitched and glued by someone who is choosing to tie the bow in a funky, unique, decidedly not “how-to-get-started-in-ten-simple-jealously-guarded-killer-steps” sort of way.

I will see my therapist again in ten days now. I plan to present her with a one-of-a-kind roll the dice form of game plan. I will make it memorable, most certainly, so she won’t confuse me with someone who orders from a run-of-the-mill calendar and only shops at safe, cookie cutter, just like everyone else types of spaces.

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Julie Jordan Scott is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy and mixed-media artist  whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives. Watch for the announcement of new programs coming Spring, 2014 and beyond. 

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N is for Natural: The Bold Writer from A to Z - Who Makes You Feel Like a Natural Writer?

I was listening to Carole King this morning before I started my N is for Natural quotes. I love the song (You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman. Somehow sitting here on my recliner with my laptop across my knees belting out her lyrics felt like a perfect moment. I sang her lyrics with my own invention of runs mixed in all the while knowing my children can hear it and probably think their Mommy has lost it makes me feel giddy.

It was another hilarious to me moment.

I laugh thinking about how I must have sounded as an earnest fifteen-year-old belting it out. There I stood, in front of a mirror, singing to myself and the world the brilliant Aretha Franklin sang.

Is it any wonder my siblings think I’m more than a little bit odd still?

Anyway - our prompts today are to persuade you to write naturally rather than artificially. Ready? Let’s write!

Quotes:

 “Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art."

Charles Dickens

 “I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.”

Joan Didion

QUESTIONS:

Who makes you write like a natural woman/man? Write them a thank you note. Go!

What topic or genre makes you write the most naturally? Personify the topic or genre and write IT a thank you letter!

Lists

Make a list of 3 to 10 writers you read who write with a natural sounding voice.

Make a list of 3 to 10 writers you read who write with an unnatural sounding voice.

Make a list of the differences between the natural and the unnatural.

Bonus: Look at a previous piece of writing and then write it as ridiculously unnaturally as possible.

Look at that same piece of writing and strip everything away except for the barest, most natural words. Sparse, sparse, sparse. Allow each way of writing to teach you something new.

Traditional Writing Prompts:

When I write naturally, I notice….

When I allow myself the freedom to be completely naked with my writing, I….

BONUS: Take one of these prompts and write it with Carole King singing “Natural Woman” in the background. 

 

The A to Z Blogging Challenge involves creative bloggers from all across the world who cover a wide gamut of topics from "whatever pops into my daily life" to infinittesimal details about unique and varied subjects. To check them out - visit The A to Z Challenge Blog. 

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Julie Jordan Scott is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy and mixed-media artist  whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives. Watch for the announcement of new programs coming Spring, 2014 and beyond. 

Check out the links below to follow her on a bunch of different social media channels, especially if you find the idea of a Word-Love Party bus particularly enticing.

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M is for Majestic + Bucket List Inspiration: The Bold Writer from A to Z

Today's Image Prompt: Describe this view of majestic -

M is for.... Majestic:

One of my biggest complaints about the writing I read from students is the use of too many conceptual, abstract words without the objective, descriptive language to give it satisfying visual or other sensory structure the readers can "see" as in "showing" not "telling."

"Majestic" is an especially strong pet peeve word of mine. Perhaps you will have a moment to watch the opening of this video from The Bucket List where the word is discussed... and then come back for the prompts. If you don't have time for the video now, please spend time with the prompts anyway.

  Quote

 

“It is majestic, this love affair of ours, so powerful and regal. It is the kind of love that fairytales are born of. The kind that often ends in tragedy.”

Addison Moore

Someone on "Goodreads.com" labeled this quote as majestic. What do you think?

"I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
― Nikos Kazantzaki

 

e human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/majestic.html#Oxo5UROCJpfCSU6d.99

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

Eliza Farnham

Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/majestic.html#Oxo5UROCJpfCSU6d.99

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

Eliza Farnham

Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/majestic.html#Oxo5UROCJpfCSU6d.99

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

Eliza Farnham

Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/majestic.html#Oxo5UROCJpfCSU6d.99

Questions

What are some ways you have used "majestic" in a sentence in the past?

What are your thoughts about the word/term "majestic"?

Have you written some version of a "Bucket list"? If you haven't, what's stopping you?

Lists:

Make a list of 5 to 10 majestic places, spaces or people.

Make a list of 5 to 10 experiences you have had which you would either call majestic or are on the "road to majestic." (Feel free to use that as a poetry title... I think it would work!)

Traditional Writing Prompts:

Well, in my opinion the word majestic is.....

If majestic was a cloud, it would rain.....

The road to majestic is paved with....

The A to Z Blogging Challenge involves creative bloggers from all across the world who cover a wide gamut of topics from "whatever pops into my daily life" to infinittesimal details about unique and varied subjects. To check them out - visit The A to Z Challenge Blog. 

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Julie Jordan Scott is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy and mixed-media artist  whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives. Watch for the announcement of new programs coming Spring, 2014 and beyond. 

Check out the links below to follow her on a bunch of different social media channels, especially if you find the idea of a Word-Love Party bus particularly enticing.

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Writers: Let's End the Cycle of Fear of Other's Opinions

Quote: 

“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.”
― Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Questions

Before you do any writing or please read the quote aloud slowly (if possible, or else simply read it silently, slowly.)

How might you describe the truth that is in you in one sentence?  How about in a paragraph? Write it.

How would your writing benefit from divine floods of light and life? (If the “divine” word doesn’t suit you, please substitute for a different word.)

For fiction writers, how would one of your characters respond to these questions? Free write a possible response in a five minute free writer. Ready? Write!

Lists

List 1 – 3 times you stayed silent when you wished you had spoken.

Re-create that experience from a fictional perspective. What might have happened if you had acted? You may also write this with a fictional protagonist and antagonist, too.

List 1 – 3 causes you support right now.

For fiction writers, create these lists and this scenario for at least one of your characters.

Traditional Writing Prompts:

When I let go of my fear and let my words flow, my writing….

I step into the writing light and….

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The A to Z Blogging Challenge involves creative bloggers from all across the world who cover a wide gamut of topics from "whatever pops into my daily life" to infinittesimal details about unique and varied subjects. To check them out - visit The A to Z Challenge Blog. 

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Julie Jordan Scott is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy and mixed-media artist  whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives. Watch for the announcement of new programs coming Spring, 2014 and beyond. 

Check out the links below to follow her on a bunch of different social media channels, especially if you find the idea of a Word-Love Party bus particularly enticing.

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K is for Keen: Excited, Highly Developed & Intellectually Alert = The Bold Writer from A to Z

K is for Keen

Defined as....

• having or showing an ability to think clearly and to understand what is not obvious or simple about something

• very strong and sensitive : highly developed

• very excited about and interested in something

• intellectually alert

What better way to be described? What I would give to have my name attached to”highly developed intellect” or “intellectually alert” or “showing an ability to think clearly and to understand what is not obvious or simple about something”

When one has a keen awareness of the world as it unfolds around us and can communicate this to the rest of the world, the better off we will all be.

Quote

"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything."

Napolean Hill

"I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out.”

Sonya Sotomayor

Questions

Consider a time you had “keen pulsating desire” as Napolean Hill describes. What happened? What did you do about your “keen pulsating desire”?

How important is observation in your writing life?

Lists

Make a list of 5 - 10 ways to use your senses to increase your skills at keen observation.

Remember 5 - 10 times you were a keen observer. What happened?

Bonus: Write a scene, vignette, poem or outline surrounding one of the items on your list. Take your list to create your own writing prompts.

Writing Prompts/Activities:

Writing Prompt Activity: Observe an object in your near vicinity, preferably something ordinary. Observe it keenly - with all your senses for five minutes. When the five minutes are over, write what you saw, smelled, heard, touched and in some cases, tasted. Write what is tangible as well as metaphorical. Make associations. Have fun!

Second prompt: Write about what you observed about yourself in the previous activity. For fiction writers, how would your character approach this exercise?

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The A to Z Blogging Challenge involves creative bloggers from all across the world who cover a wide gamut of topics from "whatever pops into my daily life" to infinittesimal details about unique and varied subjects. To check them out - visit The A to Z Challenge Blog. 

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Julie Jordan Scott is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy and mixed-media artist  whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives. Watch for the announcement of new programs coming Spring, 2014 and beyond. 

Check out the links below to follow her on a bunch of different social media channels, especially if you find the idea of a Word-Love Party bus particularly enticing.

Please stay in touch: Follow me on Twitter: @JulieJordanScot    

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