Right to Write ~ Week Two

Good Morning! Week two reading The Right to Write by Julia Cameron. Jump in when you can and do what you are able.

The Time Lie
Track
Bad Writing
This Writing Life

"We can use writing the way a filmmaker uses a lens: to pull focus, to put things into a different perspective. We can zoom into a closeup. We can pull way back and put something against a larger swathe of landscape. If writing is observing the movie in our minds, it is also editing it, adding sounds track, putting on a voice-over." (pg 31)

I love the concept of using writing to adjust my focus. What a neat way of looking at these exercises and the time it takes to do them!

 If you were unable to read this week, or do not have the book, my favorite writing assignment for this week is an exercise in writing about your life. Take three sheets of paper and use the practice from last week to write about you. This time, though, pick one situation such as a purchase you're debating, a relationship you want to work on, a challenge you are facing. Now just write! Don't worry about grammar or spelling or readability, just write and see where your writing takes you.


Next Week:
Mood
Drama
The Wall of Infamy
Valuing Our Experience