Mindful Sparks for Creative Writing
We like to multitask. Write and check emails while watching TV or listening to music. However, attention is a muscle. And when you really pay attention, you start to notice tiny details you might otherwise have missed open up, begin to come alive, because you’re finally seeing clearly.
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
Smell is powerful. One whiff of cinnamon or cut grass and we’re pulled into memories we didn’t know we still held.
We often overlook smell, but it’s a shortcut to emotion. When you write with your nose, you unlock a different kind of memory.