Quote:
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf
Questions:
Take a moment to consider what it means for you to be free - -
What do you value about being free?
What does it mean to you to have a free mind?
What does it mean to you to have a free body?
Lists:
List up to 5 moments in the past week where you let your mind free.
List 5 to 10 ways you felt freedom as a child.
List 5 to 10 ways others have attempted to take your freedom from you.
Writing Prompts:
The freedom of my mind takes me....
To make the freedom of my mind into reality I need to...
To make the freedom of my mind into reality I will....
Freedom is.....
Visual Prompt
Look at this photo for thirty seconds and then write from the sensory prompts: I see, I hear, I smell, I taste, I touch, I feel....
Bonus: Take one of your responses to your list and turn that item into a vignette - sort of a short story from the memory from that list item. Continue to play with those lists as prompts.
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There are no rights and wrongs as to following the prompts here. There is only showing up for your life and your creativity and using what inspires you to fulfill your dreams, passion and purpose.
Brava for being here!!
This Blog Series was created to increase your creative thinking process as well as inspire writing and ideas to take form that may not have taken form without these specific quotes, questions and prompts. If you find them helpful, I hope you will pass them along to friends as well.
I’m so glad you are here, reading and creating.
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Julie Jordan Scott is a writer, performance poet, Mommy and mixed-media artist. Her word-love themed art will be for sale at First Friday each month in Downtown Bakersfield. Check out the links below to follow her on a bunch of different social media channels, especially if you find the idea of a Word-Love Party bus particularly enticing.
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