Everything under writing

  1. Creativity Framer

    Draw out the above on an A4. In the first column, write down 3-5 areas/activities in which you can easily be creative (where you can feel the creative energy flow). Next to the first column, write down which positive personal attributes are associated with that activity. In the top …

  2. Freewriting

    Freewriting is nothing more than what it says, to write freely, without the inner critic or the grammer police intervening. You can start with or without a prompt (a picture, a word, a topic, a thought) or just set the clock for 10, 15 or 20 minutes and just write …

  3. Mapping thoughts

    What are the themes/topics/phenomena you are fascinated by? Write that down on a piece of paper. Then, mark the topics you'd like to work and express yourself within. Share that with the others.

  4. Medium is the message

    If you have your mission statement, and know what you would like to bring across, what kind of medium would be suiting to deliver your message? Take a few minutes to consider the different channels through which a story can be experienced. What brought you to believe in that in …

  5. Strike a third

    Choose 10 sentences from your freewriting exercise, your story, your draft, that draws your attention. Exchange your selection with someone else. Strike a third of the other person's text and rearrange the order. Give it back to the author. It's everyone's task now to write a story, where the newly …

  6. What do you want?

    Ask yourself or someone else the question: What do you want? Take a piece of paper and 10 minutes to write down what comes to your mind. This question/exercise is good for the very beginning of a process of expression, as it can help to formulate desires. Take the …

  7. What's your life motto?

    Ask yourself or someone else the question: What's your life motto? Or your values to live by? Take a piece of paper and a couple minutes to write down what comes to your mind. Then, ask the follow-up question: In what way are you not living by that motto? Or …

  8. Writing lyrics (before music)

    First, consider what topics there are you'd like to write about. Then take one of those topics and do a couple of rounds of freewriting, formulating all of the association you make with that topic. Now pick out the sentences that draw your attention. Write those down and put them …