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Drama: August 15, 2007 Issue [#1895]

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Continuing on with chapter 9 in Writing The Wave by Elizabeth Ayres

Chapter 9 Becalmed


Jump-Start a Stalled Work-in-Progress

Music

The writer is always at the mercy of “What’s next?”. That answer is always inside you. Music is a very powerful tool for summoning material from a writer’s unconscious.

1 Locate an unfinished story, poem or essay.
Reread the piece so that it is fresh in your mind.

This should only take a minute or so, so your timer will not be needed.

2 Get clear in your mind about what you want from the upcoming music session. Write it down in your notebook as a focus statement.

For step 3 you are going to need some music. Nothing with distracting words or something that you are already familiar with. Try something you haven’t listened to in a long time. Or a style that you don’t normally prefer.

Set your timer for 2 minutes

3 Listen to music- Simply listen, don't write anything. Let a scene emerge in your mind, or just let it carry you into a feeling state.

Now set your timer for another 2 minutes

4 Write whatever scene, image or feeling the music came to you.If no picture emerged, just put your pen to paper and start writing. Something will take shape as you write.

Now that you have an image, you've created 2 Knowns- the old unfinished piece and the new image from Step 4.The gap between them is the Unknown. Foe Step 5, you may again create your own time limit, just write until you don't feel like writing anymore.

5 Now Link the scene created in Step 4 to the unfinished work selected for Step 1.

Well as the author says in the book; I can't see what you wrote, but I can bet that you were able to link those two pieces!

Next newsletter we will work how objects can help to unblock those stubborn writer's block.

So until next time... Keep writing!
MandiK



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I had also asked for submissions on teenage drama-
Here is the first one: submitted by mawitty

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likenion
WOW! Incredible work with this wheel! I find it so interesting and just might use it for a story or two! So by the way just a question. When we have to choose a pair of directions, do they have to be opposites like North-South and West-East or can they be something more free like North- East and so on?
Apart from that excellent work!

~ I believe in order for this particular exercise to work correctly, the two compass directions must be directly across from each other


darkin
Wonderful newsletter, Mandik. I'm adding the link to this one in my help item

~thank you so much! I've found this book to be so helpful in my writing, I hope that others are able to use it as well.

I urge anyone that is finding these exercise helpful, to search out this book in you local bookstore- there are so many more suggestion between its covers!


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I love this exercise and can't wait to take it home and try it out!

~Good for you!


mawitty
...thanks for featuring my story, "No More Dirty Dishes."

~Not a problem. I hope the exposure help out any questions that you might have had with the piece.

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