Today was the day that I went off to Great Barrington to take an intensive workshop with Winter Miller. There were fifteen of us in the yoga/meditation space. We started out with some talking out loud things. Then, a series of writing prompts – some short exercises, followed by longer periods of writing based around what had gone just before.
I ended up writing about three different sets of characters and situations. It was very useful learning ways to generate information which might motivate a person or color a situation, to be able to think: ok, I know these three things, these two people in this situation and now they are going to interact. Go! They got to the point very quickly.
Even if the instructions seemed hard or not what I would normally do, I used my normal taking a class approach and did it the teacher’s way. Otherwise what’s the point, right? The results were quite interesting. She had encouraged us not to say “no” to the exercises or what might come up during the work but to get to where you could say “yes” to something in it. Continue reading
