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Creative Business Writing
Impact Factory runs tailored Creative Writing Programmes Write from Gratitude - Creativity and Personal GrowthMorning pages, like anything else, go in the direction your consciousness points them. I keep my gratitude lists handy and when my intellect says "I have nothing to write about" I simply take one of my lists and use the items on my list as my prompts. Write from Gratitude - Creativity and Personal GrowthCopyright 2005 Adele Sommers Grow Your Art and Your Life© 2005 Julie Jordan Scott This is what happens when you write from your gratitude list. I hear variations of this theme from people, “I can’t write morning pages, they are a downer and they get me upset…. “ Morning pages, like anything else, go in the direction your consciousness points them. I keep my gratitude lists handy and when my intellect says “I have nothing to write about” I simply take one of my lists and use the items on my list as my prompts. The words, my energy, my heart – my writing – then follows the path I have intentionally created. It feels good – and it paves the way for more abundance, for more gratitude, for more wonder – and for better writing as well. Here is what I wrote today, directly from my cheapo, morning pages notebook: “I am proud of me. As sporadic as my morning pages have been for the last week or so, I have been present to them at least in small ways… I haven’t given them up in a tirade of disgust like I might have done in the past. It is all good. A single scented candle sits on the table in front of me. It is lovely in its simplicity. It’s light, gentle and true, reminds me of sunrise and Thoreau’s commentary on the sun being a morning star. I feel blessed. I hear my coffee, celebrating its last drop by giving itself a bubbling, crackling ovation in the coffee maker. “We’re ready for drinking!” they call to me, the luscious aroma mingled with the simmering cinnamon apples on the stove which remind me of Mission Viego Mall, the second floor, at Christmas time. I think that mall has a new, glitzier, ore “OC-esque” name now. I wonder if that coffee store is still there? I wonder. I look across the front entry to my living room and I see the morning fire dancing beneath what Sam calls “Christmas Socks”. I can’t feel the physical warmth from 2 rooms away, but its presence says “peace” and for unknown reasons contentment washes over me, just like it felt last night when I pulled my comforter up and under my chin and snuggled into my pillows. The stillness of the night said, “All is well,” accompanied only by my children’s breath… in and out and in and it was all I could do not to cry from sheer joy.” You can see in my writing the path wasn’t straight or narrow… I wandered into stream of consciousness and yet I always stayed in gratitude, Yes. That is what happens when you choose to write from your gratitude list. Try it. Julie Jordan Scott is a Writer, Speaker, Actor, Director and Creativity Coach who created the 42 Days of Writing Passionately Program - the Fr*e*e International Writing Workshop which begins again on January 10, 2006. Check it our and register now: http://www.PassionWriteNow.com or http://www.5passions.com
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