Writing Assignment Extraordinaire!

Where do ideas spring from? Are they slow growing like trees with deep roots

that gather substance, which works its way into words...showing

up like leaves and fruit?

Or do ideas show up more quickly like a summer pot of flowers,

displaying their beauty in so many shades of delight?

Personally, I like divine inspiration! Looking to the Lord for

help when I'm stuck. 

We needed lots of fast growing ideas at our recent 

Pens of Praise meeting. 

Kathy Leist shared a writing teaching and some activities with our writers. 

Here is how this one goes...truly it was an 

extraordinary experience! We were to write down  words that would be

{ a character, time, event, object --  one at a time.}then place them in

a sack, which everyone picked from for their writing leads. Here are my words and 

what developed from this exercise!

Emperor, August 28, 10:30 a.m., handsome gardener, birthday party, pipe wrench

The Emperor wished to ignore his actual August 28th birthday of 10:30 a.m. 

and chose night and darkness instead. Stars shined out from the inky blackness 

over Hong Kong's most famous birthday party event. 

He decided that the eight course dinner should be served in his 

famous garden surrounded by exotic birds and luminous lighting 

of various colors. The handsome gardener was to

serve him his feast, course by course. 

If it had not been for the 

pipe wrench hidden underneath the

gardener's robe the Emperor 

would have enjoyed every morsel! 

Thank you Kathy Leist for a wonderful writing experience! 'Twas fun!

I encourage anyone who loves to write to try this technique with a few

other writers for a fresh supply of ideas!