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This week: Rediscovering Your Childhood Edited by: Sara♥Jean  
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Rediscovering Your Childhood
To find some inspiration, don't be afraid to jump back into your childhood loves and become a little nostalgic.
There are certain parts of our childhood that we don't remember with much fondness. However, there are always those parts of our childhood that we remember with warmth and tingly feelings all throughout our whole bodies. We can draw upon those memories when when we are grasping for inspiration.
We can even draw upon them multiple times. Let me show you how.
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Let's say you have the memory of the last time your grandfather was with you at Christmas before he passed. You remember that he and your grandmother brought you many presents, he held you on his lap while reading the Christmas Story to you, and the turkey your mother cooked was just perfect. Here's how this one memory can be turned into multiple inspirations for multiple stories.
 Story 1: Perspective of the child, living the wonder of Christmas. Oblivious to the feelings of the adults around him - or maybe not so oblivious?
Story 2: Perspective of the grandfather, knowing that his time was short, but wanting to make this a Christmas that his grandson or granddaughter would remember. Perhaps he already knew he was ill.
Story 3: Perspective of the mother of the child, watching the scene while she worked hard on the Christmas dinner. It is also possible that she had a feeling something was different about that Christmas.
Story 4: Perspective of the grandmother, consciously taking a step back and letting the grandfather take a larger role this year, and making mental pictures for herself as she watches everything happen so incredibly closely this year.
Story 5: Perspective of some other sibling - maybe there's a baby that's too young to really understand. Maybe there's an older sibling that understands too much and is staying out of the way. Maybe there's another sibling that is college age that is too old for all of the excitement, but still definitely knows what is going on.
Or, of course, you could also literally be a kid, set up a scene, and have Godzilla come in and destroy everything.
Perspective is everything. If one perspective of a story isn't working, change perspectives. Look at the story through the eyes of a different character. It really can completely change the scene - each character knows different things, feels different things... so it gives you a new way to look at the situation and story. |
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Here is some feedback and questions I received from "Noticing Newbies Newsletter (March 14, 2018)"
Robert Deimel  asked, "I told my friend, Dr. Olga Borodavko, in Dnepr, Ukraine about this site. She wants to submit her poetry here. Can she do that?"
If your friend creates an account, I don't see why not. The site, I believe, requires that everything be submitted in English, so anything that your friend submits as an item would need to be in English, but as long as she does that, she should be able to use the site like anyone else unless she cannot get to it for some reason. We do have members that are from other countries. ~ S J
Kimbug said, "I'm such a procrastinator. I was more organized and together before marriage and children. I tell my husband the things I need to do so he can remind me or check my progress. He usually keeps me accountable and on track."
Oh, I feel your pain! Children, especially, can make a woman very forgetful, I think. I also ask my husband to remind me of things - even if he forgets, the simple action of asking him to remind me seems to help me out. I'm glad you have someone to help you! ~ SJ
And someone wrote in about "Noticing Newbies Newsletter (February 14, 2018)" !
Angus  said, "Thank for this great Newsletter, Sara Jean! Outlines do seem a little out of date, but years ago I realized the importance of making one. I wrote 250 pages of a novel before I ended up writing myself into a corner; I had to go back and get rid of 1/2 of those pages! All because I didn't start out with an outline!
Aaargh!
Write on, my friend!"
Oh no! 250 pages in is quite a long way! I'm glad you didn't give up, though - that would be even more devastating. If you consider all of the rewrites we do anyway, it's good that you were able to use an outline to help you hopefully reduce the number of rewrites you needed to do once you were through completely, and not back yourself into any more corners. ~ SJ |
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