creative living

Channeling the Universe: Finding my faith in magic through storytelling

Channeling the Universe: Finding my faith in magic through storytelling

Sometimes it feels like I’m chasing the story. But that’s not the truth. The truth is that the story is a scared child. They are asking for their story to be told, but slow to trust. I am sitting down by the fire I built for us every day and listening to them, connecting with them, seeing them. And every time we do this it can get a little bit easier. And some days it gets harder again. Some days the blackberries we pick are sour and the wood is wet so the fire sputters out, we shiver together and don’t say much except that I will come back tomorrow to try again.

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Uncovering the Truth

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Uncovering the Truth

Writing from personal experience or from deep emotions can be scary at times. Sometimes, like I’ve done, it requires a first draft that is purely the facts of it all. But if the goal is to create fiction from your own personal story, there are some tools that I have used that have helped me to build a novel with independent, fully-crafted characters that are not thinly veiled versions of me and my friends.

Visual Writing Prompt 4

Visual Writing Prompt 4

Let’s talk about writing from a prompt. One of the things I love about visual prompts is that there’s no set point of view. You get to decide whether you are writing from the point of view of the person on the other side of the camera, any people that are in the picture, or someone off to the side who can see the photo being taken.

Visual Writing Prompt 2

Visual Writing Prompt 2

Happy holidays to all. Whether it was bright and full of joy and family and love or full of challenge and struggle and reconnection with toxic people, or somewhere in the middle, I hear you. As we grow up, holidays can be really challenging in many aspects, and hold plenty of joy and wonder as well. 

But let’s get back to creativity, so here’s another visual writing and creativity prompt!

Visual Writing Prompt 1

Visual Writing Prompt 1

Creative prompts are a great way to get the creativity flowing, whether you are stuck in a project, stuck in general, or just looking to have a little fun in your process, hopefully my visual prompts can help. Every week I will share a visual creative/ writing prompt and a piece of flash fiction that I wrote, inspired by this photo.