Don’t shoot, the Breakthrough tip for the week of May 12: put down that camera

I wake in my friend’s cabin on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. It is May 11. Snow falls outside the window. I open the front door to shafts of sunlight and brilliant green aspen shining through a veil of white. Later at home, I write one my editors about the vision of snow and Spring trees. He asks me if I have pics. I write back: There’s no point. Pics wouldn’t do justice to snow on leafed-out aspens or the green scent of the air or the icewind on my face. I don’t take photos because if I do the images and other sensory info don’t enter the part of my mind from which writing emerges.

Try moving through a week of your life without taking photographs or written notes. Let the huge encyclopedia of your mind register and store information: sights, sounds, scents, touches, taste, conversations, light, weather. At the end of the week, free-write for at least twenty minutes. Here is your prompt: I know what matters the most to me…

I’m delighted to announce that the winner of this week’s free half hour consultation is Naima Schuller. Check out her blog at:  http://householderyoga.net/author/householderyoga/

And again I offer a free half-hour writing consultation to one of you. Send a page of your writing to my web mail. I’ll assign a number to each submission, put the numbers in a hat and draw one. Please include your email when you send me your writing.

 

 

 

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