Week 1

Writing

Collect some beautiful sentences or parts of sentences. Write them down and use them as an inspiration.

• Don’t have to speak
• To remain daily
• In each others hearts, always
• The only person who never gets tired of listening to your pointless dramas
• Over and over again
• Thing will get better, it might be stormy now, but it won’t rain forever
• So full of love and light that none of what is going on outside of you matters
• You have to do what is right for you
• No one walks in your shoes
• Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak sometimes it just means you are strong enough to let go.
• Get up, go back to bed.
• I stay up late every night and realize it’s a bad idea every morning.
• Takk skal du ha.

Write down one of the sentences you choose and write down a short reaction to it. Think about what it is you want to write before you start. It has to be approximately 10 lines in 3 to 5 minutes.

Takk skal du ha. It literally means “You shall have a thank you”. I love the fact that in that sentence you are announcing that you will thank a person. It makes the expression of gratitude even bigger, or maybe even very formal. I can imagine some gentleman say it to someone. He has a moustache, a high black hat and a trench coat. He will bend over towards the person he wants to thank and say “You shall have a thank you”. After that he will turn around and walk away into the shadows.

Word poem

a. Chose one of the following words: fantasy, pie in the sky

Pie in the sky

b. Write down the letters of the word underneath each other.

c. Create a new word or short sentence by using the first letter.

Perfect

Interesting

Earth

Infected

Now

Tomorrow

Healing

Secretely

Knowing

You

Wouldn’t it be wonderful

This is a simple exercise where you can indulge in all your wishes, whether they are realistic or just fantasy. The exercise is easy. You start with the sentence: Wouldn’t it be wonderful….

Keep adding words behind it, like:

- Wouldn’t it be wonderful to eat chocolate right now?

- Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have nails that can’t break?

- Wouldn’t it be wonderful to eat without gaining weight?

• Wouldn’t it be wonderful to fly?
• Wouldn’t it be wonderful to sleep all day?
• Wouldn’t it be wonderful to live in a world without money?
• Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have enough space and time for a lot of animals?
• Wouldn’t it be wonderful to visit space?
• Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be the smartest person alive?
• Wouldn’t it be wonderful to find peace?
• Wouldn’t it be wonderful to swim in a river of silk?
• Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be every person you want to be?

Colourful

Do you have a certain image connected to relaxation? Is it the beach, a splashing river or delicious smelling tea.

Try to find an image that shows that feeling and write down the reason.

The view I had from my balcony. I sat there for hours and hours just listening and watching the sky turn dark or grow lighter.

During the day I heard people talking, laughing and making noise. I heard cars pass by and birds chirping.

When the night arrived everything went silent. I could just sit there for hours and think, or not think at all.

I never grew bored, for the sky always changed just like the people.

Eventually it the sun would come up again and I would watch the sky change colour.

The birds started singing again and I knew I would have to go to bed.

It’s beautiful..