Time to Write

"The myth that we must have 'time'--more time--in order to create is a myth that keeps us from using the time we do have. If we are forever yearning for 'more,' we are forever discounting what is offered."      Julia Cameron, The Right to Write, page 13

Analogy to Optical Illusion and

Respond to the optical illusions on the overhead.

   This is level one writing.

    Share teacher response:

About analogies.  Comparing one thing to another.

2. More prewriting practice. This is level one writing.

         more focused freewriting

          brainstorming

3.  Mystery writing assignment.    Making Uncommon Connections

         1) Pick a number from 1 to _____

         2) Write down your "topic."

         3)  Writing Assignment: compare your "topic" to "writing."

         4)  Teacher shares her bikini response. 

      Overhead ---

 [3.  Analogies -- Response to an optical illusion overhead:

My life is like this optical illusion because sometimes

I'm fooled into thinking I see what isn't there.  For instance, sometimes I see people I know talking together and they don't look at or talk to me.  I think I see them being mad at me or laughing at me, not wanting to have anything to do with me.  And I feel very small. But maybe what I think I see isn't there.  Maybe they just didn't notice me.  

         And sometimes I think other people are better off than I am.  They seem to have more fun and less  fewer troubles.  But usually, if I look closer, I see that their fun is just different from mine.  And I do have a lot of fun.  Perhaps their troubles are different from mine, or maybe they have some of the same problems I have, but I just haven't seen their troubles. 

         I think I'd be better off if I didn't fall for so many "optical illusions" of life.