![]() ![]() ![]() You may not have owned so many cars – or be that interested, so what about shoes, houses, coats, pets, houseplants, mugs, … you name it. Goldberg suggests: ‘Keep these topics in your back pocket and exercise them often.’Ī ’38 Buick convertible with a rumbleseat and a fireball eightĪ ’32 Packard Victoria with cut-glass bud vases and a 7-foot hoodĪ ’38 Packard sedan whose clutch my girlfriend blew outĪ ’40 Plymouth 2-door with the shift right up there on the wheelĪ ’42 Nash coupe, black and utterly uninterestingĪ ’47 Cadillac convertible, long and sexy as a serious kissĪ ’35 Dodge thronging with old ladies’ ghostsĪ ’56 MG we souped up so hot it would barely run on gasolineĪ ’62 Volvo 544, eye-shadow blue and indomitableĪ ’62 Rambler sedan nobody had ever made love inĪ ’48 Buick convertible that honest-to-God liked meĪ ’65 Ford Galaxy in which I destroyed a Kharman Ghia, a privet hedge, and finally my relative innocenceĪ ’66 Ford Country Squire with the heart of a ClydesdaleĪ ’68 Ford Country Squire clean enough to take to bedĪ ’70 Chevy wagon as drab as a submarine’s insidesĪ 72 Audi so corrupt I still can’t bear talking about itĪn ’82 Rabbit that helped me discover where my sciatic nerve is. You can have more than one go at an idea. You have to start somewhere and you will build up stamina and skill and fluency and confidence. These bursts of writing can be thought of as training to run a distance. In the opening chapter the advice is to just keep going. These first prompts are from a wonderful book about writing memoir by Natalie Goldberg called Old Friend from Far Away. Send us photos of your writing nook, with or without you writing there. We will aim to post a ten-minute writing prompt daily. Even the youngest can draw along with you.ĭon’t be hard on yourself. Minimalism challenge A minimalism challenge is for anyone who is feeling overwhelmed or frazzled in any area of life Whether you want to declutter your home or declutter your mental space, this 30-day minimalism challenge will help you prioritize the most important things in your life while eliminating the things that are no longer serving you. Equally, this might be something you do with other family members. You may choose to write alone, a blessed moment of quietness. Find the spot, inside or out, if you can, and let the words arrive. Choose your preferred form of writing equipment – screen, paper, notebook, pen, pencil. If you have a timer, set it, so that you don’t have to think about the time. Focus Skills: Creative Writing, Illustrative Arts, Narration, Reading Clarity, Project Management & Team Collaboration. You will know where, when and how this will work best for you. During times like these you might find, more than ever, that writing could work its magic. We suggest that you aim to carve yourself a ten-minute slot each day for your own writing. Of course, you can write for longer, but ten minutes feels possible as a starting point. ![]() Spring and summer of 2020 brought a time of enforced isolation and high demands on resilience, patience and calm. ![]()
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