I often think I feel too much compassion, but Mary Ann McSweeny says we must let ourselves feel more and let compassion lead us to dynamic writing. Thanks, Maureen, for this prompt today. Hope my writing friends will find it helpful as I have.
This is WordPlay—so why not revel in the power and potential of one good word after another? This week, it's “compassion.”
Who or what do you feel compassion
for? And how might compassion help you write about these subjects with
substance?
Compassion deserves pondering by all
of us sharing the planet.
PROMPT: Here is a great prompt directly from this
week's featured writing from Brevity
magazine, "What
Do You Care About? How Compassion Leads to Dynamic Writing" by Mary
Ann McSweeny:Try this exercise as you discern what gives authenticity to your own writing:
Sit in a quiet place, eyes opened or closed, pencil and paper by your side.
Clear your mind of its busy-ness. Feel your heart space—calm, deep, full of wisdom.
Ask yourself: What do I care about? Let the answers arise in their own time and way.
Write down the things, concepts, or people that surface in the stillness. Choose one and take ten minutes to write about it.
WordPlay
Maureen Ryan Griffin
Email: info@wordplaynow.com
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Maureen Ryan Griffin
Email: info@wordplaynow.com
Website: www.wordplaynow.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/wordplaynow
Empathy and its close cousin compassion are funamental to my life. Both can be painful, but I would be a lesser person without them.
ReplyDeleteYes, EC, empathy and compassion are in my DNA, and can be painful. I just sent this post to a writer who is unmotivated right now to write. I hope it will help her bring up some of the stories from her past when she had compassion and empathy or felt it from others.
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