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How Reading Helps You Write Better: 5 Simple Tips to Improve Your Writing Now

Read quality material in the genre you are most interested in writing. Bestselling and enduring memoir for the memoir writer, for example. Award winning children’s books and teen series for folks writing for that audience. Learn what works well through being a consumer of the product you would like to emulate and create within.
Don’t attempt to become a photocopy of the writer you are reading, use her style as an inspiration to create your style. I had a teacher who had us practice our writing by literally copying three pages of another writer’s words, writing them onto notebook paper. There is value there, like painters copy master works and singers practice by following another vocalist before branching out to discover a unique style.
Read for style, skill and effectiveness rather than reading for “I like this, I don’t like this.” If I chose not to read Steven King’s On Writing because “I don’t like” his genre, I would have missed out on so much value! Read a chapter in a genre you “don’t like” simply seeking skill and effective communication. Watch your perspective shift as you evaluate for what works rather than whether it tickles your content funny bone.
Read slowly. This isn’t about marking the book off your reading to-do list, this is about savoring methods so that you may become a better writer. This isn’t a fast food restaurant, it is a work of art.
Write. Read. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat Again.

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Julie Jordan Scott inspires people to experience artistic rebirth via her programs, playshops, books, performances and simply being herself out in the world. She is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy-extraordinaire and mixed-media artist whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives.

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Speak It: Your Story - an Inspirational Poetry Performance by Julie Jordan Scott

I wrote a rough draft of a poem and then did a very daring thing: I performed it via live broadcast on Periscope.

What on Earth was I thinking?

I wasn't - and this is where boldness and simply marvelous storytelling is often born.

Julie Jordan Scott inspires people to experience artistic rebirth via her programs, playshops, books, performances and simply being herself out in the world. She is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy-extraordinaire and mixed-media artist whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives.

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Having Fun with Writing Prompts: Let's Listen to a Train Together

Maybe it is the railroad blood that pumps through my body that does it: passed down to me from my grandfather and his six brothers. Whatever causes it, when I hear train whistles from a distance, I pause in the same way I pause when I hear church bells or a meadowlark call to me.

My father, who doesn’t like poetry, suddenly started quoting a poem I wrote to his sister about hearing my grandfather’s voice in a train whistle’s song.

The sound of a train stirs me in a way unlike many other sounds.

I remember the kiddie train at Turtleback Zoo, a favorite haunt of my childhood. I remember steam trains my parents splurged on when we took family vacations, winding through green forests not unlike the one Samuel, Katherine and I took two summers ago into the Grand Canyon.

What images and words rise to the surface of your memory when you see “train” in your mind’s eye?

What images and words rise to the surface of your heart when you hear the sound of a train?

There is a recording for you here – after you’ve taken a moment or two to tune into your personal images and words (perhaps even scribe them on a new sheet of paper) close your eyes and listen.

Then set your timer for five minutes and write whatever words come from the tip of your pencil. Free flow writing doesn’t require you to think, it simply invites you to move your pencil across the page or your fingers on the keyboard.

As you write, choose one or more of these prompts to guide your process.

The train is…

The train sounds like…

I remember train sounds…

The train invites me to….

Now write, just write. Please.

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Julie Jordan Scott inspires people to experience artistic rebirth via her programs, playshops, books, performances and simply being herself out in the world. She is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy-extraordinaire and mixed-media artist whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives.

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Be a Better Writer: Let's Make Writing Practice More Fun (with Writing Prompts)

We hear it in the same way we brush our teeth, change our clothes or turn the key in the ignition of our car and back out the driveway. “To be a better writer, one must have a writing practice.”

For many of us, the idea of a writing practice where we sit and attempt stream of consciousness leaves us flat and in leaving us flat, we abandon writing practice before we receive any benefit from it at all.

Instead of not doing a writing practice at all, I suggest being more creative with writing practice.

One creative way to engage with writing practice is through the use of five minute writing prompts.

Yesterday, created a writing prompt using words that start with the prefix “re” and in five minutes, here is what I wrote:

Replenish. Rejuvenate. Restore.

I am having a love affair with the Prefix “RE” today.

Again and again and again I am reminded of the vitality I feel when I meander back to investigate, playfully with whatever it is that calls me. I prefer not to rush through an experience just to mark something “done”, I prefer layers of texture, a surprising flavor after I’ve held something in my mouth for a moment, a delightful end note of a piano player’s warm ups.

My laughter gurgles up from someplace deep within me.

Replenishing. Rejuvenating. Restoring.

It isn’t a surface experience, a slight “tee hee” it is a lusty, vibrato filled and at times even silent laughter – laughter that is a rejoicing song of delight.

As I write this morning my face is covered in a smile.

I imagine it a kaleidoscope over my face, a smile virus, a touch of the “where did this happiness come from?” flu.

I reminisce with my words, I re-engage with this exact moment, I celebrate with gratitude all that is, all that was and what is to be.

My fingers stop tapping on the keys as I take another look, I pause to review, I allow myself to fully feel my pleasure in this five minute dance with the prefix “re”. I could do this over and over and over again. Re. Re. Re.

Replenished. Rejuvenated. Restored.

It felt like something of a miracle. I only did a stylistic edit by taking the tenses of replenish and scatter them throughout the writing practice because I thought it would flow better “for an audience.”

Now it’s your turn.

Set your timer for five minutes and scoop up your favorite three “re” words and write, without thought. Write at your computer or by hand.

I look forward to hearing how it goes for you. Perhaps even reading your words!

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Julie Jordan Scott inspires people to experience artistic rebirth via her programs, playshops, books, performances and simply being herself out in the world. She is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy-extraordinaire and mixed-media artist whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives.

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7 Ways to Use the New Social Media App Anchor to Be a Better Writer

My favorite new social media app is Anchor, billed as “Radio by the People.” I look at Anchor more like Twitter meets Podcasting with short, easo to digest recordings – also called “Waves” – and the ability to interact via one minute “waves” in response.

These short, easy to digest pieces of writing are then open for conversation with other members of the “Anchor family”. Waves may also be tweeted and shared on blogs and facebook.

Why is anchor especially helpful to improve your writing?

Because of the brevity of each Wave, we must learn to be concise with our content delivery. Because of this packaging, we learn to make our point quickly. I see it, sort of, like an audio version of twitter or an audio micro-poem.
The people on Anchor seem to be quite intelligent. This is a plus for often nerdy writers: they have a category called “Open Question” where you may tune into the wisdom of these smart people and in doing so, improve your craft, share resources and possibilities of new directions.
Folks currently on Anchor are adventurers, early adopters of new technology. This translates into a passionate breed of listener, exceptionally helpful and curious. Another bonus is you have the capacity to be an instant expert on something brand new.
There are also categories for “Stories” you may listen to and glean new skills by observing the stories others are telling. Again – these are “soundbite” stories rather than long, drawn out stories. The double skill set of storytelling and “micro” story telling is ideal.
There is a searchable feature as well. I frequently look up #writing or #poetry and there is one for #bookclub, where I was recently intrigued to read #Girlboss, something I would usually not even think to read. More expansion and more improvement as writers.
You may simply read your writing as you record. Unlike Periscope, no one is watching so there is no need to be self-conscious. In reading your writing aloud, you may also capture what isn't working. Sometimes I even "edit as I go" in a version of "improv editing" when my time is running out. You may re-record also - it is semi-live unlike Periscope.
It is fun, exceptionally fun, both listening and responding to Waves as well as creating your own.

Like all social media, you will need to determine how much time to spend and share on Anchor. It will, hands down, improve your writing through making it more succinct and concise.

Just like I have, you may find Anchor to be extraordinarily valuable.

And just for fun, here is a recent WAVE I recorded:

Julie Jordan Scott inspires people to experience artistic rebirth via her programs, playshops, books, performances and simply being herself out in the world. She is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy-extraordinaire and mixed-media artist whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives.

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How to Debunk the Time Management Myth of Rush, Rush Rush - Learning from Poetry

Sometimes I admittedly go over the top with my attempt to “squeeze the marrow out of every moment” much like Thoreau wanted to “suck the marrow” out of life. “Make every moment count!” my motto – and sometimes synchronicity and a voracious hunger for words knocks me off the royal throne of my opinion and allows me to take on something even better.

In a moment of multi-tasking, I paged through Mary Oliver’s collection White Pine one morning. I sat and read and actually had the most inconceivable, yes more than slightly arrogant and flat out outrageous thought, “Mary must have had an off year with this book. None of these poems are stirring me at all.”

And then I turned the page.

It was in that page’s turning Mary’s words knocked me off my chair.

There I was, feeling smug and proud for “managing my time” with intention and insight and oh so fabulously spiritual yet tangible and applicable not at all esoteric terms and here Mary wrote, in her poem “At the Lake”

(Listen to me, reading, in audio.)

”This is, I think,

what holiness is:

the natural world,

where every moment is full

of the passion to keep moving.

Inside every mind there’s a hermit’s cave

full of light,

full of snow,

full of concentration.

I’ve knelt there,

and so have you,

hanging on

to what you love

to what is lovely.

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I read it once, silently, to myself.

I read it twice, aloud, to no one and the entire world.

Mary’s words knocked me off my chair and invited me to live some questions, to walk around with them for a while.

What if I looked at my concept of time management as expansive holiness?

What if I held time like the touch of the river water along the banks, letting it flow and gurgle and smell so good I just want to throw off all my clothes and leap into it?

What if I integrated the thought of time as holiness and passion and movement and me as holy-time’s playmate, co-conspirator, fairy godgranny?

This is where I want to kneel with time.

“Full of light, full of concentration,” and “every moment full of passion to keep moving” even in the stillness of tears in my eyes, kneeling with my grandbaby and wondering "how the hell did I get so blessed?"

Time as holiness.

I am diving into it, headlong, and see the feather comforter supporting me and surrounding me and yes, perhaps you are there laughing beside me.

Time as holiness.

With my life work, with the people I love, with the people I serve that I absolutely can't help but love. With my creative projects. With the next-whatever-it-is-that-pops-up-next.

Time as holiness.

Questions/Prompts:

If I considered time as holy, my attitude might.....

Remember a moment when I was full of light, full of concentration -- what happened? Relive the moment in words --

How would your relationship with time shift if you greeted it as holy --

Julie Jordan Scott inspires people to experience artistic rebirth via her programs, playshops, books, performances and simply being herself out in the world. She is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy-extraordinaire and mixed-media artist whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives.

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Dear Younger Julies, Each and All of You -

This post came from the prompting of Susannah Conway's April Love Letter Challenge.

I've written love letters to my younger selves and I've read many. Today when I sat to write, I was not in the rainbows, unicorns and all hail world peace sort of beauty contestant responses in my letter.

I wrote stream of consciousness style and this is what I came up with today. Do you recognize these younger versions of me?

Here I am at 15 months old (Buddha Julie) 17, 20 and 42 - I have very little documentation of my 30's

Dear Younger Selves,

I saw this prompt today (to write a letter to my "younger self") and I wasn’t very happy about it. I wanted to say “been there done that” but Heraclitis tapped me on the shoulder with the whole “never stepped in the same river twice” philosophy and he knew he got me. On a technicality, perhaps, but he got me.

It is so easy to get almost ridiculous with all of this younger self stuff.

I don’t want to be one of those people who says “everything will be ok little Julie, adolescent Julie, ten years ago Julie” because I’m at the point that I can’t say everything will be ok.

I can’t guarantee everything will be better even. Younger Julies, Your child will die, you will get cancer, you will have a child with autism, you will never have a man be faithful to you – ever. Your kids will move away leaving a hole in your gut worse than you ever imagined, especially since you encouraged their independence. You will know grief better than you ever wanted to, ever.

You will fall down and get up, and get up, and get up. Cliché, but it is in getting up and showing up your legacy will get built.

You can be certain of this: if you are devoted to your own calmness and your own sense of peace and truly want to be a positive influence on as many people as possible, you must mind your opinion, your mouth and your behavior. Things aren’t black and white or even yellow and purple. One plus one may not equal two and what you think might not be right and doesn’t matter much of the time, anyway.

Act in the direction of love, not according to your position on politics or the arts or whether someone just insulted you or your kid or your Mom or your hometown.

Speaking of love, it is horrid and wonderful and unexpected and hard and will help you get through your worst times and sometimes it will cause your worst times. You may be good at detaching, but that isn’t always satisfying. Don’t let your competitive spirit get in the way of a meaningful hug.

Cry openly, laugh loudly and be prepared to embarrass those you love. The ones who matter will keep loving you – even publicly.

There are times you’ll feel abandoned. There are times you’ll get hurt. Mind your opinion, mouth and behavior even when hurt, even when abandoned, even when no one listened to you once on any particular future day and you find yourself tired and hungry and forgot to do the laundry and your only clean panties have issues with elastic. Annie had it right, the sun will come out tomorrow. This next piece is really important. I want to be sure you’re listening.

Contrary to what your mother told you (or will tell you) in the basement on Hawthorne Avenue, write it all down. Document – with passionate truth even when it hurts. Or perhaps especially when it hurts - - because through it is the way to more beauty than you ever imagined. Finally, when I say “mind your opinion, mouth and behavior” what I mean is to be thoughtful before you speak and act, and continually clear your brain of thoughts that are destructive. Sometimes that means you may need to take a respite from some people in your life.

So everything around you won’t be ok and might not get better, but you will be ok and you will be better. You are and you will. It’s raining in Bakersfield in April. Miracles happen. You are here.

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Julie Jordan Scott inspires people to experience artistic rebirth via her programs, playshops, books, performances and simply being herself out in the world. She is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy-extraordinaire and mixed-media artist whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives.

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Behold the Wonder of the..... Fill in an Object of Wonder - Odd or Quirky or Only You Would Think So Works Best

These words were playing in my mind, over and over again,

“Behold the wonder of the…. Behold the wonder of the…. Behold the wonder of the….”

I know the word I used to end that proclamation and I also know how some people with limited thinking responded to me. There is one voice in particular who said, “How pretentious!” that made me wonder what language he heard me speaking because it seemed so strange to think “Behold the wonder of the foot” was pretentious.

It was, after all, Martha Graham who wrote, “Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle and the dance is the celebration.”

I didn’t think any of those words are the least bit pretentious.

That friendship ended after a couple weeks, after my brother died and that person said something else rather stupid.

I digress, however.

Behold the wonder of the foot has been ringing in my mind since I saw Susannah Conway's AprilLove2016 challenge prompt, “Dear Foot”

Before I read what I wrote, I want to ask you the question to consider – what do you want to behold the wonder of that some people might find… odd?

Dear Foot,

Behold the wonder of you, beloved foot, carrying my weight for all these years without major complaint. You serve my relentless whims, conjectures and experiments, my insistence upon wearing this shoe or that shoe or the other shoe without critique beyond the occasional ache or pain. Why the infinite sacrifice? You never get applause or kudos or… ahhhh, there it is, My pencil stumbles upon an a-ha moment that floats from its scratching tip toward me.

Was it you, dear foot, that coaxed me back into the almond orchards last month, you who urged me to take off my shoes and feel the cold, fertile soil the almond petals blanketed? I thought that nudge was divine yet now I can almost feel you smiling, beloved feet – the times you carried me gleefully into mud baths and freshly mowed lawns and to the edges of the surf.

I had no idea it was you – and yet I did. I must have, somehow.

How fitting it is, then – “Behold the wonder of the foot…”

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Tomorrow's prompt is "Dear Morning"

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Julie Jordan Scott inspires people to experience artistic rebirth via her programs, playshops, books, performances and simply being herself out in the world. She is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy-extraordinaire and mixed-media artist whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives.

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Sunset Called: Reflections, Then & Now on World Autism Awareness Day (and Autism Awareness Month)

I remember when Samuel and I walked away from his school when he was in the first grade. It wasn’t working at the school, I said, and we would figure it out together. I couldn’t understand what the problem was but the educators didn’t seem open to collaborating beyond insisting I was an inept parent, even though these same educators had seen my parenting skills with my highly successful daughters.

Less than three hours later I googled “sensory overload” due to the coincidental meeting of an occupational therapist at the counter in the office at Samuel and Emma’s school earlier in the day.

I had said to her, “I think I have a problem with sensory overload” and in a moment of insight that would change the rest of my life I said, “I think my son has it, too.”

Google gave me a website that explained the symptoms of Asperger’s Syndrome and perfectly described my little boy. I called my mother crying – grief stricken and relieved I had uncovered what was plaguing Samuel and never realizing the challenges on the horizon.

Today Samuel is a thriving, goal directed high school freshman who is driven to succeed in college prep and advanced classes. Recently a friend of mine who I’ve known for four months said to me, “Wait – Samuel has autism? I didn’t know that –“ and I said, “I don’t think of him as ‘autistic’ I think of him as Samuel.”

Yet in retrospect I wish, oh how I wish, I had known more about autism when Samuel was a little boy.

I promised one of my friends on periscope I would share a scope on World Autism Awareness Day. I wanted to share my thoughts and I didn’t want to share my thoughts.

I drove to the bluffs several blocks from my home. I got out of my car and knew, just knew, I needed to watch the sunset with my periscope friends. I could talk about Samuel, I could offer a visual writing prompt, I could feed my soul and perhaps offer a moment of thought and reflection to people who ambled past ever live or via the periscope video.

Samuel and I share our home now, just the two of us. It is a different life. I spend less time in social occasions or at the theater. It continues to be an adjustment.

Throwback: Samuel and I used to make Videos together.This was made eight years ago, four months after my discovery and a month before he went back to school to finish the first grade.

He continues to teach me.

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Julie Jordan Scott inspires people to experience artistic rebirth via her programs, playshops, books, performances and simply being herself out in the world. She is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy-extraordinaire and mixed-media artist whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives.

Register Now for The Time to ReWrite Your Life is Now: What Was, What Is, What is To Be.... a New Writing & Soul Growth Coaching Program to expand your creativity and improve your life experience.

To contact Julie to schedule a Writing or Creative Life Coaching Session, call or text her at .

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April 28, 2016

How Reading Helps You Write Better: 5 Simple Tips to Improve Your Writing Now

April 21, 2016

Speak It: Your Story - an Inspirational Poetry Performance by Julie Jordan Scott

April 16, 2016

Having Fun with Writing Prompts: Let's Listen to a Train Together

Be a Better Writer: Let's Make Writing Practice More Fun (with Writing Prompts)

April 14, 2016

7 Ways to Use the New Social Media App Anchor to Be a Better Writer

April 13, 2016

How to Debunk the Time Management Myth of Rush, Rush Rush - Learning from Poetry

April 08, 2016

Dear Younger Julies, Each and All of You -

April 07, 2016

Will You Transform Your LIfe Today? Choices, Beliefs and a Challenge to Take Passionate Action

April 03, 2016

Behold the Wonder of the..... Fill in an Object of Wonder - Odd or Quirky or Only You Would Think So Works Best

April 02, 2016

Sunset Called: Reflections, Then & Now on World Autism Awareness Day (and Autism Awareness Month)