Mindful Sparks for Creative Writing
Most of us walk without noticing a thing. Our feet move, but our minds are elsewhere. Today, try walking slowly. Walk twenty steps and try to notice everything. The air on your face. The sound of your footwear on the surface you’re walking on. The way your weight shifts from side to side. This is mindful walking, and it has a strange power: it empties the mind just enough to allow ideas to sneak in.
Mindful Sparks for Creative Writing
Week 3: Objects That Speak. Mindfulness can slow us down enough to notice the stories hiding in objects. Look around you now, pick something ordinary, like a shoe, a cup or a piece of clothing. What has it seen? Where has it been? The creative mind sings to us when we let things talk.
Mindful Sparks for Creative Writing
Week 2: The Colour Collector. For this lesson, I’d like you to pick a colour, it can be any colour you wish. Let’s say it’s blue. For the whole day, notice every shade of blue that you can. The sky, jeans, shorts, ink, someone’s eyes. This is mindfulness in action, looking closer at everything than you usually do, and the more you notice, the more material you’ll feed your imagination.
Mindful Sparks for Creative Writing
Week 1: The Pause Before the Pen
Before you begin to write, stop, close your eyes and take three deep breaths in through your nose, breathing out slowly through your mouth.
