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Drama: September 12, 2007 Issue [#1945]

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Hi, again!

Have I had a bit of DRAMA in my life lately!?! Let me tell you!

As you probably judged from my "name", I'm missing my daughter terribly. She's in New York City at the French Culinary Institute for the next 6 months, and I will only get to see her occasionally when I fly her home to Western New York (Buffalo area). My son, a junior, won a starting position on his football team only to have a larger guy fall on him doing "monkey rolls"! The result was a fractured vertabrae that is still keeping him out of the game. Then there is my daughter's boyfriend. Sweetest guy that is now at Alfred University, alone, trying to make the varsity football team and missing my daughter terribly! And to start this whole thing off... my husband has to "lay down" his motorcycle to avoid a collision with a car that cut him off while he was riding. His ankle/foot is severly bruised and strained- but luckily he's alive!

So please bear with me if I dn't give you too many "Editors Picks", I'm also judging a contest (essay) and haven't read much Drama this month- Living it has been enough!!!!

Lots of love and understanding...
MandiK



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Letter from the editor

Continuing on with chapter 9 in Writing The Wave by Elizabeth Ayres

Chapter 9 Becalmed


Jump-Start a Stalled Work-in-Progress

Objects

This third device is very similar to the second, music, except you use objects instead of music. First locate a piece of writing you haven't finished. Step one will only take a minute, but the hunting for the object may take longer.

1 Find an interesting object, preferably something you're not really familiar with.

Now write a focus statement like you did for the music.

Set your timer for 2 minutes

2 "Be with" the objest intimately. Hold it. Feel its texture, its weight. Look at its color, its shape. Smell it. Taste it. Examine your object thoroughly for 2 minutes.

Set your timer for 2 minutes more

3 Write. Let your experince with your object inform and infuse the direction of the words on the page. Come up with an image, or scene or just write about the feelings the object imparted to you.

No time limit here...

4 Write. Weave together what you cooked up from step 3 into the unfinished work you selected.

You are now done with Objects!

One more way to jump start a piece of writing that's stalled...

Random Sentences

1 Locate another unfinished piece of writing and reread it. Copy the last 3 sentences of the work in progress into your notebook. Then walk to the nearest bookshelf and pull down any book

2 Open the book at random. Copy down the first sentence your eyes land on. This is now the 4th sentence on the page.

Set your timer for 10 minutes

3 Continue writing from the 4th sentence. If the sentence doesn't actually make sense in your piece, then use the structure of the sentence- relationship among nouns, basically to inspire you.

Follow the steps for the Objects to finish this excerise.

You now have two more ways to jump start a stalled piece of writing!

So until next time... Keep writing!
MandiK


Editor's Picks

I know that I'm supposed to give you some of my "picks" here, but as I said above, I've been just a touch busy lately.

I'm still looking for some new Teenage Drama to highlight here...

MandiK

 
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