Friday Five Minute Exercise - Your Life Purpose

1. Set your clocks/timers for Five (5) Minutes.

2. Write about Your Life Purpose. Do you think the gift of being a writer is related to your life purpose? Write a one-page declaration of your life purpose and then put it close to you when you write. The written declaration will help guide your soul as you write.

Get into as much detail as you can for the next five minutes.

3. Ready?

4. Go.

5. Finished? Review and be amazed.

I hope you had fun. Come back next Friday for a new writing prompt.

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Did you succeed with this writing exercise?  Is your life purpose all about writing? Were you able to create a one-page declaration about your life purpose? Do you have it near when you write? Does it help? Was this exercise helpful? Did you enjoy it?

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Friday Five Minute Exercise - Intuition

1. Set your clocks/timers for Five (5) Minutes.

2. Write about Intuition. Write about a previous feeling that could only be explained by the forces of your unconscious soul.

Get into as much detail as you can for the next five minutes.

3. Ready?

4. Go.

5. Finished? Review and be amazed.

I hope you had fun. Come back next Friday for a new writing prompt.

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Did you succeed with this writing exercise? Was it helpful? Were you able to determine a previous feeling? Did you figure out that it was intuition? How did you figure it out? What senses did you use to determine your intuition? Was this exercise helpful? Did you enjoy it?

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Friday Five Minute Exercise - Options

1. Set your clocks/timers for Five (5) Minutes.

2. Write about Options. Write down all your options - the alternatives - the choices. Sit quietly and try to remember the dreams you had as a child. Get in touch with your soul be recurring desires and aspirations you have long forgotten. Write to discover the endless possibilities that exist for you as long as you listen to your heart. Free your mind from the restraints you have placed on yourself … write to hear -- write to understand -- write to experience -- write until you know.

Get into as much detail as you can for the next five minutes.

3. Ready?

4. Go.

5. Finished? Review and be amazed.

I hope you had fun. Come back next Friday for a new writing prompt.

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Did you succeed with this writing exercise? Was it helpful? Were you able to write down all your options? What about your choices? Did you remember any dreams you had as a child? Were you able to get in touch with your soul? Did you write until you understood? Experienced? Until you knew?

Why or Why Not?

Friday Five Minute Exercise - Seduction of Writing

1. Set your clocks/timers for Five (5) Minutes.

2. Write about the Seduction of Writing. Do you feel yourself being drawn into the characters that your soul produces? Do you feel a connection with the world when you write that is often not felt in even your closest relationships? The writer is seduced by the act of writing. We are lured from the outside world into a world of creativity and growth.

Get into as much detail as you can for the next five minutes.

3. Ready?

4. Go.

5. Finished? Review and be amazed.

I hope you had fun. Come back next Friday for a new writing prompt.

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Did you succeed with this writing exercise? Was it helpful? Were you able to see how you, as a writer, are drawn into the world you create? Do you experience a connection when you write that you don't even feel with your closest relationships? Do you get seduced by your writing?

Why or Why Not?

Friday Five Minute Exercise - Self-Discovery

1. Set your clocks/timers for Five (5) Minutes.

2. Write about Self-Discovery. Write about the pure joy of looking into your soul and being excited about who you are. use the writing process to explore the uniqueness of your existence.

Get into as much detail as you can for the next five minutes.

3. Ready?

4. Go.

5. Finished? Review and be amazed.

I hope you had fun. Come back next Friday for a new writing prompt.

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Did you succeed with this writing exercise? Was it helpful? Were you able to open up and look into your soul? Were you excited about who you are? Did you explore the uniqueness of your own existence?

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Friday Five Minute Exercise - Labels

1. Set your clocks/timers for Five (5) Minutes.

2. Write about Labels. Write about the close-minded identities we as humans sometimes bestow upon each other. Does labeling negate the human soul in some way? Does labeling affect your ability to write with an open and true heart? Get into as much detail as you can for the next five minutes.

3. Ready?

4. Go.

5. Finished? Review and be amazed.

I hope you had fun. Come back next Friday for a new writing prompt.

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Did you succeed with this writing exercise? Was it helpful? Were you able to find and write about your own ability to write with an open and true heart despite labeling? Were you able to define how labeling negates the human soul in some way?

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Give Me 250 - Freedom

Let's celebrate our writing. Your Writing Coach has the "Give me 250 on Wednesdays" prompt. Every Wednesday I will give you a prompt and all you have to do is give me 250 words on whatever pops into your head about the prompt. It can be a draft or a final revision. Just give me the 250 words you want to share. Post the 250 words on your blog. Celebrate your writing!

Then, when you are finished, link your permalink post here and discover what others have posted for their 250. Share this link with your Twitter friends and Facebook friends. Share away. Just celebrate and share. Use the hashtag #250Wednesday on Twitter.

Only one rule: Encourage the person who linked before you. It's important that we all have validation for our writing. Encouragement is important. Validate another's writing; be supportive, just like you'd want someone to validate yours.

Invite your friends to join in the fun. What can you write in 250 words with our prompts?

This prompt will stay up for your writing pleasure for one week, Wednesday until Tuesday. Then, the prompt changes.

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5/01/13 Prompt - Freedom

Today's prompt asks you to write about freedom. Freedom of the heart and soul. Do societal expectation and guilt attached to your roles affect your choices in life? Do they affect your freedom to do and be what you want? Write about how you can possess true freedom of your heart and soul.



Have fun with this. Did you enjoy the writing prompt?

Friday Five Minute Exercise - Your Identity

Here at Your Writing Coach is the Friday Five Minute Exercise: I'm going to create a writing exercise for you to stretch your writing muscles. Let's see what you can do with the prompts I provide.

Gabriel Fielding said, "Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find."

That's how I want you to approach your writing abilities. Never be certain of what you will find, but always be surprised at what you can do.

Friday Five Minute Exercise - Your Identity

1. Set your clocks/timers for Five (5) Minutes.

2. Write about your identity. Who are you outside of your external roles? Today, write about individuality within the spirit. As you write, take a journey into your soul and leave the world behind.

3. Ready?

4. Go.

5. Finished? Review and be amazed.

I hope you had fun. Come back next Friday for a new writing prompt.

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