Thursday, March 21, 2019
Words With Impact: Deepen Vocabulary with Ambiguity
Workshop:
Discover Words That Sing
“One is
poised on the Threshold of life waiting to be born. It’s an ongoing process.
Some of us are not happy unless we are born over and over again, still trying
to get it right.” Tim Wynne-Jones
And
sometimes we need a sense of ambiguity to discover new possibilities.
Memory
gives us the process of choice and decision-making and thresholds. Our
understanding grows and our perspectives shift. A right choice made once before
has now become a wrong choice. An ordinary day shifts suddenly into the
unexpected—sometimes by events—sometimes morally.
Scripture
stories, fairy-tales and folk-tales speak this language into our hearts. We’re
not left without access to wisdom or experience. Others have taken this journey
and we find hints how to find our way through.
The
day began on an ordinary walk through the woods with their father searching for
food, but this time Hansel and Gretel are abandoned. They step into the
unknown. Many of their choices are made without mature knowledge but they rely
on instinct. Red Riding Hood travels a familiar path to her
grandmother’s house, but comes back from one visit completely different, or is
she?
The
added beauty from a journey perspective is that the reality of common
day-to-day activities can be developed into shadows, as passages from long ago
or as foretelling to the future. All also have the potential to tap into echoes
and allusions and metaphors. It opens up creativity and new beginnings. “Which way is in and which way is out.”
Action
Steps:
Although nothing illegal has happened to your
protagonist, she begins to notice some discrepancies in the paperwork she is
responsible for tracking. When she asks her boss he dismisses it as
unimportant. However she realizes that only her signature is on the documents.
And she really needs this job.
1. What are her options?
2. What course of action does she choose and
why?
3. What effect could each of these
possibilities create?
Share:
What word best captures her dilemma?
Read deep, marcy
Labels:
Ambiguity,
Creative Writing Prompt,
Deepen Vocabulary,
Discover Words That Sing,
Eight Communication Basics,
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Words with Impact
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