Remember when I said I would eventually go back and do Calen’s The Sandbox Writing Challenges 1-23? Well, I am going to begin them now by starting with this first loosening up exercise from Roberta Allen’s book The Playful Way to Knowing Yourself which consists of Four Lists:
If you were asked to choose seven words to describe yourself, what would they be?
- quirky
- nerdy
- geeky
- solemn
- unique
- curious
- otherworldly
If you were asked to choose seven objects that have meaning for you, what objects would you choose?
- a citrine crystal
- an Orson Scott Card science fiction book
- a black cherry candle
- an autumn leaf
- a seashell
- a raven’s feather
- a beaded bracelet
If you were asked to choose seven colors that have meaning for you, what colors would you choose?
- Black
- Burgundy
- Royal Purple
- Indigo
- Crimson
- Copper
- Forest Green
If you were asked to choose seven places that have meaning for you, what places would you choose?
- The Outer Banks NC
- Maine
- Front porch
- Blue Ridge Mountains
- Roanoke VA
- Asheville NC
- Anywhere my laptop is
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Ooo, Ooo, Ooo! We are SO on the same page!!! Which OSC book??? Cool!
*laughs* my favorite is Speaker for the Dead, but I love all of the Ender’s Game books, I also love the Memory of Earth books and have just gotten into the First Formica War books. I have everything he’s written.. even the religious ones that are loosely based on the LDS Church. Isaac Asimov, Kim Stanley Robinson, and OSC are my favorite scifi writers. I would be content to just own their books and read them over and over again.
“Ender’s Game” is one of my favorite books of all time. 🙂
It really is a work of genius. I enjoyed Speaker for the Dead because it went into greater details of the relationship between Ender and his siblings. It also showed a much more mature Ender.
I haven’t read it, though I have it. I’m finding it so hard to read and blog at the same time. I”m trying to get through “Letters to a Young Poet” by Ranier Maria Rilke and “All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr. I think it’s so weird I’m struggling with it. I’ve always been a voracious reader…