About My Writing
Writing about past trauma is tough and made tougher when memory is riddled with gaps. Fitting the bits and pieces into a linear storyline doesn’t work, but forms like the sticky note and quilted essays, photo and visual essays, flash nonfiction and prose poem, braided and collage essays eagerly invite fragmented story telling. Connecting content with its destined form is thrilling, as is the satisfying victory once all the arranging and rearranging of fragments finally fit into one cohesive snapshot.
For more information on creative ways to tell your stories, visit Nicole Breit’s website.
For more information on creative ways to tell your stories, visit Nicole Breit’s website.
Unblocking Writer’s Block
I recently had the pleasure of participating in a course offered through my writing community, Writerly Love, led by the super talented, Julia Garza.
We started with simple things like mindful mark making. A meditative-like process of making repeated marks on a sheet of paper with paints, markers, coloured pencils, etc.
Then moved into something called, collecting our days, where we free wrote about whatever happened on that particular day, and decorated the page with a medium of our choice.
As much as I enjoyed these new practices, it was with collaging that I fell in love. As I immersed in my new creative endeavour, my writing muse inched her way back into my life, but this visual form of story telling isn’t going anywhere.
We started with simple things like mindful mark making. A meditative-like process of making repeated marks on a sheet of paper with paints, markers, coloured pencils, etc.
Then moved into something called, collecting our days, where we free wrote about whatever happened on that particular day, and decorated the page with a medium of our choice.
As much as I enjoyed these new practices, it was with collaging that I fell in love. As I immersed in my new creative endeavour, my writing muse inched her way back into my life, but this visual form of story telling isn’t going anywhere.
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