Unbox Your Words #1a
Give yourself permission to play with your writing in new and exciting ways
Welcome to this very first Unbox Your Words - Give Yourself Permission to Play! Whatever you’re writing (stories/poems/nonfictions/hybrids/novels etc…) and wherever you are on your own writing journey - at the beginning and wondering if the words will come, or along the road but feeling like you want to shake things up, take a side turn, see if your words can dance in different ways - I am so excited about what we are going to explore together! (To read a bit about why I’ve decided to do this and what it means to me, check out my Sept Highly Irregular newsletter)
There will be two parts to each monthly Unbox Your Words: on the 10th of every month, I’ll offer you some kind of writing provocation, prompt or exercise to do, either to inspire new work or to help refresh a work-in-progress - or maybe both, depending on how much time you have. Then, at some random point later in the month, when you’re needing a little shot of energy, I’ll send you something to read, which might be a creative piece I’ve come across, or an interview with a writer or artist…
These Unbox Your Words posts are also open to comments - I’d love to hear from any of you who’d like to share how you found the provocation/prompt/exercise and the reading material. This is a place not to post new work, but for us to discuss and create community, giving not just ourselves but each other permission to play and try things in our writing we might not have thought we were allowed to do.
Let’s get started! For this first post, I am offering you both a writing provocation and, down the bottom, a video writing exercise, Word Cricket, which I play at the beginning of every writing workshop I run… and which you can do as many times as your like.
Your writing provocation is:
Move The Bed
This might not have been what you were expecting. Have I wandered into an interior design Substack by mistake?, you may be thinking. Nope. Let me explain…