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4.9.21 Journal Prompt

On 04.09.2107.07.21 By BethIn For Writers & Creatives1 Comment

Sunrise at Burr Oak Lake in Burr Oak State Park Where was the last place you wrote that truly inspired you?

4.8 Journaling Prompt

On 04.08.2107.07.21 By BethIn For Writers & Creatives

Do you feel more connected to sunrises or sunsets? Elaborate.

4.7.21 Journal Prompt

On 04.07.2107.07.21 By BethIn For Writers & Creatives1 Comment

Do you believe people are born writers, become writers, or a combination of both? Elaborate.

4.6 Journaling Prompt

On 04.06.2107.07.21 By BethIn For Writers & Creatives3 Comments

What part of writing/the writing process is most difficult for you? Elaborate.

4.5.21 Journal Prompt

On 04.05.2107.07.21 By BethIn For Writers & Creatives

What part of writing or the writing process brings you the most joy? Elaborate.

4.4 Journaling Prompt

On 04.04.2107.07.21 By BethIn For Writers & Creatives1 Comment

What does your work bring to the reader? What is your unique slant/flavor?

4.3.21 Journal Prompt

On 04.03.2107.07.21 By BethIn For Writers & Creatives2 Comments

What is your relationship to words?

Time to Write: The Stories We Tell

On 04.02.2107.07.21 By BethIn For Writers & Creatives, Thoughts

What's your story? When uttered by an adult, that phrase usually struck fear into the heart of young Beth, suggesting I'd made a wrong choice, a bad decision, or run my big mouth when I shouldn't have. In fact, an iteration of that question asked by my 5th grade teacher in a moment of haste …

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4.2 Journaling Prompt

On 04.02.2107.07.21 By BethIn For Writers & Creatives2 Comments

How did you know you were a writer? What happened to give you that knowledge?

4.1 Journaling Prompt

On 04.01.2107.07.21 By BethIn For Writers & Creatives3 Comments

When did you first feel you were a writer? What gave you that feeling?

3.31.21 Journal Prompt

On 03.31.2107.07.21 By BethIn For Writers & Creatives

What writing 'season' is next for you, at the culmination of this 'season'? How will you know it will be time to move forward? What characteristics will guide your movement? (For more clarity, see posts from 3.30, 3.29, and 3.28.)

3.30.21 Journal Prompt

On 03.30.2107.07.21 By BethIn For Writers & Creatives

What writing 'season' did you just come from/out of? How do you know? What were the defining characteristics of this 'season'? (Look back to the 3.29 and 3.28 prompt for more clarity, if needed.)

What to Do When Words Don’t Come

On 03.29.2107.07.21 By BethIn For Writers & Creatives, Thoughts

Being in that place where it's time to put words down on the page but they refuse to show up can feel incredibly isolating, but it needn't be. Since the days of papyrus and charcoal (or whatever ancient writing implements were used!), feeling blocked in getting our ideas from the abstract to the concrete faces …

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3.29.21 Journal Prompt

On 03.29.2107.07.21 By BethIn For Writers & Creatives1 Comment

What "season" is your writing in currently? How do you know? (See yesterday's prompt for more clarity, if needed.)

3.28.21 Journal Prompt

On 03.28.2107.07.21 By BethIn For Writers & Creatives

How does your writing change with the external seasons?

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I'm Beth--writer, mom, teacher, meditator, creative. Welcome to my online-room-of-my-own, updated daily or as often as my muses make me. Thanks for stopping by!

Today I started writing the 4th draft of the memoir about losing PM, quitting my job, and becoming a meditation teacher. And this time, I will finish. Are things falling apart? Meditation practice is not the act of sitting still, it’s the invitation to experience the fullness of this gorgeous, iridescent moment with all of our senses. Sitting is the way of tradition, and works well, but there are times when your body craves a shift I want to be in my classroom putting up posters and smelling freshly sharpened pencils, not waiting for a BOE to gaslight us at the bargaining table again. Never imagined I’d be starting a school year on the picket line but here we are. In one split second this morning, I realized I felt fully and completely happy, all the way down into my heart space. I had a cup of coffee, a pen, fresh paper, a text from a friend, and a little time to myself to write. “My feet will want to walk where you are sleeping, but my heart will go on living.”—Pablo Neruda What if I told you that making this reel was not on my list of to-dos today, and that instead, I felt drawn to record a YouTube video being utterly and totally vulnerable about this struggle—of not being enough? While I make these time-lapses of my Morning Page routine public, they're actually the most private part of my day

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