What follows are some activities to help you begin or enhance your writing process. I suggest that you don’t just read what follows, but actually give the activities a try. I have put these here for a reason – they work. They won’t all work for you, but some certainly will…

Throughout my entire schooling career, I was a left-brain thinker. Math made sense. It had a right and a wrong. It felt like the only solid base in a chaotic world, spawned by a tumultuous home life. This was combined with incompetent and out of touch teachers and terrible examples of poetry that I simply couldn’t relate to. I was left feeling that at best the entire artform was beyond me, and at worst that it was a refuge for pomposity and prose, written by people who have experienced less than they would ever write.…