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. Suddenly, blue isn’t just blue, it’s calm, deep, distant and longing.

This week’s exercise:

Each day this week, choose a colour and keep a log of what you see, then try to use each colour thought in the story.

Story prompts:

“She was dressed in the colour of…”