Dance Around In Your Bones

To start you off I've set up a couple of projects.

If you want to see how I've been working the excercises I chose for myself go to:
the link on the side and click " Salon du Moscoso ".

The idea here is to treat this blog like a Writer's Journal.

Just grab an excercise from the Cafe and see where it takes you. Like the song says " take off your skin and dance around in your bones "

That means go for it.
AMM



Excercise From:Spotted Dog Sudaes
http://www.dailywriting.net/Composting.htm
Compost Words
by Heather Blakey
What does composting and writing have in common? Anyone who really loves to write knows that you have to have a lot of writing miles under your belt if you want to write a novel. Bryce Courtney wrote that one should 'never attempt to write a book until you've written one hundred long letters to ten good friends.' Julia Cameron, who wrote 'The Artist's Way', talks about morning pages. If you have written one hundred letters to ten good friends and kept morning pages for one year this represents a powerful lot of writing compost.

In the world of gardening hot rotters include things like young weeds, grass cuttings, chicken manure, horse manure. In the world of writing there is no better hot rotter than letter writing. When I first began to keep journals I always addressed my entries to a close friend. This seemed to help the words to flow.

The dedicated gardener knows that they have to provide a balanced diet for their compost heap. Most compostors add things like fruit and vegetable scraps, tea bags, coffee grounds, old flowers, bedding plants, old straw & hay, vegetable plant remains, strawy manures, young hedge clippings, soft prunings, perennial weeds, gerbil, guinea pig & rabbit bedding.

For the writer morning pages represent just one of the ingredients that add to a balanced diet. In primary schools most students have a writing work book. This has the same effect if it is used often enough.

As a writer all you need to understand is that, to become an even better writer and to be rewarded with rich blooms, you need to take as much care with your compost bin as the gardeners at the Botanical Gardens.

I love to make special word compost bins with students. These are inexpensive notebooks covered with images of all the sorts of things that you need to feed your knowledge of words and your ability to write.

Grab some glossy magazines and have a think about what you will put on your notebook. Ask yourself what you will use to compost words. Perhaps you will just cut out lots of words and make it look like a magnetic poetry board. It really is up to you.

The main thing is that once you have the notebook you add something new to it every day. Trust me! If you feed your writing compost bin your compost will be ready in no time at all. You will find any writing task becomes so much easier to complete. Any dread of writing will be gone for ever.

Excercise #2



HERE'S A FUN ONE, I DIDN'T USE A CAMERA WHEN I DID THIS, I WENT ON-LINE INSTEAD.
ANYWAY IT'S A GREAT ONE...CHECK IT OUT
http://www.dailywriting.net/RomancingRuins.htm

ANITA