Saturday, February 17, 2018

New Moon Exercise

Night before last was the new moon: a good time for quiet reflection, for sitting with darkness, for planting seeds. What seeds would you like to plant for your writing? What in your writing most needs to grow over the next two weeks as the moon waxes? 

Here's an exercise: Your main character (or another you want to work with) is sowing seeds in her life. Literally or metaphorically. Show us what she's doing. It can be a tiny thing, throwing an apple core into the woods by the roadside . . . a big undertaking like planning a bank robbery . . . anything . . . Set your timer for fifteen minutes, begin with the idea of planting, and go from there.

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