Mindful Sparks for Creative Writing
Your body holds on to stories your mind forgets. A tightness in the shoulders. Butterflies in the stomach. A sense that something’s not quite right, even if you can’t name it.
Mindful writing means listening not just to thoughts, but to the quiet signals your body sends.
What if the body itself was trying to tell the story?
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.