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EntrepreVision - Powerful Questions
By Eva Liljendahl, CPCC, Inspiration for Excellence, April 24, 2008
Running a business, or working in the capacity you are, you are thinking a lot of thoughts that are productive, interesting, some uplifting and inspiring even, or you would not be doing what you are doing. At the same time it is common for us, according to studies, to think of problems in a negative way, to hang our attention on hooks of irritation, errors, lack or mishaps.
What would it be like to think of problems as opportunities?
“Ah, this is different from what it normally is, what is the opportunity in this?”
Or: “That did not come to pass as expected, probably in order for something better to come in its place, what can that be?”
Or: “What is the best solution and what will it bring us?”
What would it be like to have your attention on what works instead of what doesn’t?
“Wow, am I pleased so-and-so is my client!”
“I got a check in time once again!”
“So-and-so performs this task really well.”
“We collaborate well together, it is so engaging to work together.”
“Boy, am I happy I have this office set up this way, working to fulfill this and that purpose.”
“Profit margins improve as our process becomes smoother and smoother and we learn new ways to improve upon it.”
My objective with EntrepreVision is to offer one inquiry question at the time, applicable to your work and foster productive, new and inspiring thoughts. These thoughts will lead to planning, further investigation, new ideas and they will lead to actions that serve you and your success. Enjoy!
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Improve Your Presentation - Tell A Story
By Eva Liljendahl, published in Lincoln Park Chamber of Commerce’s electronic newsletter under Business Tips, reaching 800+ professionals, April 18, 2006
Have you been to presentations and the only thing you remember is something completely unrelated to the presentation or the topic covered?
As a matter of fact, what you remember is that the presenter’s daughter went on her first trip without her parents, and the presenter’s face when she said it. There was a story behind that statement and face. A story that grabbed the presenter in the moment and therefore grabbed you. Here is how you can use this knowledge in order to make your own presentations effective, enjoyable and for the audience to remember your messages: Include stories.
For a 45 minutes presentation aim to tell at least 3 stories; open with a story that draws the audience into your topic, tells them about your background or sets the scene for the beginning of your presentation, then for each point you want to emphasize in your presentation tell a story about it, to summarize and close tell another story.
Stories are powerful, when they work. You can’t fool an audience with your stories. They can’t be didactic, sterile, neat, unreal, made up, you can’t be trying too hard, or it will show. The very nature of story is that it’s real, it’s alive, it allows you as the audience to experience the topic, point or message, rather than just be told it. If you want the audience to remember your topic and message the stories need to be connected to those. Good stories are realistic, give us further insight and understanding, give more subtleties, invoke laughter and feelings. The best barometer of your story is yourself; if you don’t like the story, don’t believe in it or feel it “doesn’t work” then don’t tell it, or change it.
Here are some ways to come up with good stories:
- Describe a “case” of your topic, base it on a real person, case or situation.
- Ask yourself what a metaphor, an image of what you are pointing out is. What is it like? Build a story out of the first metaphor that comes to mind.
- Use somebody else’s experience and add parts that seem realistic if there are gaps.
Here are some criteria that your story should fulfill. This is what makes it a story:
- One or several people (or figures) are present, one of them is the main character and the story is told mainly from his/ her perspective.
- The audience can identify with the main character early on in the story.
- The setting in which the story takes place is named and also described.
- There is a problem, conflict or dilemma that arises early on.
- Some thing(s) happens which changes the problem, conflict or dilemma. It doesn’t have to be solved, it needs to have changed as the story ends.
Here are some tricks to make the story more of an experience at the presentation:
- Tell it in present tense.
- Add gestures, move around and show some actions with your body, if possible. (Don’t act it out, that becomes too dramatic and can be taken not seriously.)
- Add a picture on your PowerPoint slides or in your materials that reminds of the story.
Go forth, tell stories, get good at it, your presentations will be impactful and you will be successful.
© 2006 by Eva Liljendahl, President of inspirationforexcellence.com. Companies and individuals hire her company for seminars and coaching in writing, public speaking, problem solving, mentoring and reaching success. Visit http://inspirationforexcellence.com or call 773-363-5107.
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7 ½ Tips on Writing an Article On Your Area of Expertise
By Eva Liljendahl, Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, Inspiration for Excellence. Published by Lincoln Park Business Development Institute, Spring of 2007.
Yes, you read that right, you are not writing a marketing piece, a brochure or website copy. It’s an article, perhaps for a trade magazine, a newsletter or another publication. You cannot include a sales pitch in the article itself. In order to write it, you have to think differently. Here are 7 ½ tips to get you going. I hope that many of these tips are obvious and reminders of concepts you already know.
- Use an example, scenario or a case study that gives the reader the who, what, where and why automatically, without expressly stating these facts. Readers identify with examples, problems and solutions. An example will hook people in to your article and build on their interests. Therefore, this is a good way to start your article. Start out with an example, extrapolate on it, then tie back to it later in the article. This will give cohesiveness to the article. Use more than one example throughout the article to show the variety or complexity of possibilities, as it makes sense.
- Give something away in the article. Give a tip, a piece of advice, a methodology/ technique, a piece of knowledge, or perhaps a clarifying figure so the reader feels it is worthwhile to read your article. You can also take this a step further: Aim to write an article that will serve as a reference in your field or to a certain audience. Make it an excellent handout for speaking engagements, a reason to get invited somewhere, or a reason to contact someone. To reach these goals, give it substance.
- Don’t be afraid of “giving away secrets.” First of all, you probably have already gone through the necessary steps to copyright information. Second of all, very few people/companies are organized enough to steal your ideas and use them more efficiently than you and your existing competition, or it would have been done already.
- Say things as simply and clearly as you can. Telling someone the content of the article before writing it can help you get the clarity to write it better.
- Quote others, for example, specialists in your field. It adds credibility to your piece.
- For longer articles, use subtitles. This helps break up the content and organize it. Perhaps each subtitle corresponds with a different point that you are making.
- Choose a title that is clear and describes the core of the article. For example, the words “writing” and “article” in the title of this article are crucial. Of course, it’s also great if the title is catchy and attention-grabbing. Hence, the half tip in my title. The best titles often come to you after you have written the article, or midway through. One more point: questions make interesting titles. Play with your title and see what happens when you make it into a question.
The half tip is half because it’s not for your actual writing. Rather, it’s a step to take once you have completed a decent draft of the article.
- Ask someone else to check your article before you submit it for publication, both for the content and for copy editing. Make the necessary changes. This is a small step that increases the quality significantly before the receiving publication’s editor sees the article.
“The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.” Robert Cromier
Inspiration for Excellence offers coaching and seminars for individuals and companies in public speaking, problem solving and success.
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Yoga and Writing: The Pleasure Is in the Process
By Eva Liljendahl, March-April issue of YOGAChicago, a free resource reaching over 100,000 people in Chicago
My yoga teacher says, “If something is worth doing, it’s worth doing poorly.” (Nancy Butler, my teacher, received her training from the Temple of Kriya Yoga in 1995 and since then has taught yoga at Chicago’s Daley Bicentennial Plaza park district facility on East Randolph Street.) What Nancy means is that our asana practice allows us to deepen our self-awareness, which is the key to self-transformation. It doesn’t happen in an hour or a month, and it requires continuous practice, not the attainment of perfect form. One evolves. To quote Gary Kraftsow, internationally known yoga instructor, author and founder of the American Viniyoga Institute: “… asana evolved as an integral part of comprehensive spiritual practice oriented toward purification, accomplishment and realization.”
Purification, accomplishment and realization, and on the way there, we are in the process of asana practice. Somewhere on the continuum of self-awareness and self-transformation, there we are, Nancy’s students, doing asana after asana more or less “poorly,” over and over again. We all have the same body parts as the yogis from the East, and even if we didn’t have all the same body parts, we could still do most of the asanas, perhaps not in as perfect form as the Indian yogis do them. After all, some asanas are almost impossible to do. So, we aim in a certain direction and do the best we can. Over and over again. This is what having a yoga practice is about, in my experience.
A writing practice is like that, too. We keep writing poorly, or less well, or almost perfectly well, except not as well as the writers we look up to. “If something is worth doing, it’s worth doing poorly.” People, writers and non-writers alike, have something to say. We believe in the written word as a powerful tool of communication, to ourselves as well as to others. We are literate, know the mechanics of stringing words together and making them into sentences, have sufficient vocabularies, knowledge, resources, time and initiative to write. What else do you need? Still, writing well is considered difficult—difficult enough that we may be discouraged and interrupt our practice. We may tell ourselves we can’t write and lose sight of the same kind of continuum being in effect with writing as with yoga. We evolve.
No yoga class I have ever attended in my seven years of going to different yoga classes in Sweden and in the U.S. was about discussing what works or doesn’t work in yoga. In none of them were we thrown out or interrupted in doing what we were doing as we were practicing asanas because we didn’t do them well enough. A good yoga teacher may stop the class to pinpoint an adjustment, show a “wrong” and a “right” way of holding your arms or aiming your shoulder blades or walk around and physically adjust individuals as they are in the asana. However, the main purpose of the class is always for everybody to do the asanas over and over again, to improve their stretches, their control, their strength, their concentration and their balance—and most of all their self-awareness, purification, accomplishment, realization and self-transformation.
Likewise, I find that writing is about writing, even writing poorly, aiming at writing well, over and over again. Writing is about strengthening your voice, your vocabulary, your message, clarity, tension and rhythm by practicing it—increasing self-awareness in the process, leading to self-transformation.
It can be helpful to join a writing workshop or find a writing coach for advice and adjustments. As with yoga, I believe input from others is the most successful if you, the writer, are writing and continuously practicing. No mistake or flaw in your writing, no matter how severe, is a good reason to stop writing and beat yourself up, or even worse, have a bad teacher beat you up. Everybody I have ever met can write (if they are literate). Everybody I have ever met can do yoga.
Do you have a body and floor space of about 4 feet by 6 feet? Do you have a mind and a pen and paper?
Writing is easy. Just like yoga is easy. Yoga meets you where you are. You will practice yoga, doing what you can to do the asanas as well as you can. Likewise, writing meets you where you are. You will express yourself as well as you can at the moment. My yoga teacher also says, “Yoga is for life.” I want to say, “Writing is for life.”
Eva Liljendahl, President of Inspiration for Excellence, is a writing coach, helping writers and non-writers to write well with ease. If you are interested in individual coaching, writing workshops in Chicago, or teleclasses nationally and internationally, visit http://inspirationforexcellence.com to contact Eva.
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Need to Write a Marketing Piece?
Here’s how to write without procrastination
By Eva Liljendahl, www.InspirationForExcellence.com, Jan/Feb issue of The Source, Monthly Newsletter of Lincoln Park Chamber of Commerce, circulation to 800 LPCC members
When I started my business, I wrote the text to my website, my brochures, emails to prospective clients, etc. Today, I’m writing over 20 emails, this article and comments on my clients’ works. How about you?
As business owners, we write all the time. We have to. Preferably we write quickly and clearly. I want to share a technique that I use for getting started writing and for figuring out my message: The Flow Technique. It helps you tap into what you want to say, create a flow, and write in an extremely short amount of time. It is especially useful if you have procrastinated writing something or find something difficult to write. Instead of just describing it, I’ll describe it as one would in a manual, so you can do it as you read. Please, follow the steps below, and you will experience the Flow Technique:
- Prepare for writing by either opening a blank document in a word processing program, or by opening a blank page in a notebook.
- Write your working title on top of the page. (For example; “New Service Description”).
- Then, make up a few words that will get you started about the topic. Write the first words you come up with right under the working title. (For example; “This service is..”).
- Set an alarm for 5 minutes. (Alarms exist everywhere; your palm, watch, radio…))
- After the first words, write the first thing that comes to mind. And then, in stream of consciousness fashion, write as quickly as your hand or fingers allow. Don’t think. Don’t worry about spelling, words, sentence structure or logic of approach. Just write as quickly as you possibly can and allow your mind to go wherever it wants to go.
- When the alarm rings, finish the thought you have and then stop.
- The scribbles you have in front of you are raw and maybe messy. Look at them. Are there things to use for your piece? Are there words, nuggets, images, benefits, ideas that you can use? Do you feel ready to actually write the piece now? Are you ready to edit your scribbles to become the first draft?
I thought so.
Regardless of what we have to write, the Flow Technique is useful. It allows you to write and brainstorm on paper what you know and to, tap into your knowledge about the topic. without your inner editor critiquing you. The editor is useful in the next stage, when you look at the scribbles and need to edit. The editor is an inhibitor in the creative stages. Furthermore, the flow experience has a freeing effect and is enjoyable.
After having shared the Flow Technique with hundreds of people during motivational speeches and workshops, I have found that it works every time. It works with professional writers and journalists who have writer’s block. It works for lawyers who have to write legal briefs, engineers who are writing manuals and troubled teenagers who want to express themselves. It also works for entrepreneurs who think they can talk but not write.
Although I came up with the term Flow Technique; I did not invent it. Writing gurus, such as Natalie Goldberg and Julia Cameron have written about it extensively. The University of Chicago Professor, Mihaly Csikszentmihaly, coined the term “flow” in his bestseller Flow, 1990, HarperCollins Publishers.
Dr. Csikszentmilhay says: “In flow there is no room for self-scrutiny. The flow experience, like everything else, is not “good” in an absolute sense. It is good only in that it has the potential to make life more rich, intense, and meaningful; it is good because it increases the strength and the complexity of self.”
Good luck with your writing and enjoy the flow!
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Inspiration for Excellence 2005 News
Second Annual Newsletter
I’m writing this on the very first day of 2006, eleven days after winter solstice. The white sun light is streaming through a thin layer of clouds. It’s Sunday. The coffee houses and eateries in Hyde Park on the South side of Chicago are filled with crowds of people. I’m sitting at a Starbucks with Ray Charles playing in the background, watching them all. Everything is different - new. It’s a new year.
2005 is already tucked away slightly in my mind, on its way around the corner of one of the book shelves in there. What a year it was! How many natural disasters can a year hold? At least 2006 isn’t starting with a tsunami with giant waves taking the lives of thousands of people!
In the midst of all this: How was your year? What happened? Who were you with, where were you, what changed, what did you accomplish, learn, start, complete? Who have you become?
Looking back at 2005 by that bookshelf in my mind, I take a big breath. I became an American citizen in 2005! This was my first New Year being an American. This Americanization has been a gradual process as I’ve made bigger and bigger commitments to making the U.S. my home. The biggest ones were in 1994 (married an American), in 1999 (moved back to the U.S. permanently), in 2004 (bought my first home, located in Chicago) and then became a citizen in 2005.
My journey coming into my own with my work continued in 2005. Inspiration for Excellence, my company, is continually developing and growing. Seminars, coaching, teleclasses, public speaking, writing and workshops. The focus is on writing: Creative flow in writing, exploration, discovery, clarity, ease and writing from the inside and out. My clients are located all over the world, in the U. S., Canada, Sweden, Denmark, England and here in Chicago. They are non-fiction and fiction writers at different stages of writing and typically with goals of completing articles, books, novels, website copy, manuals, dissertations, thrillers, murder mysteries or comedies. Other topics/ types of writings that have surfaced in 2005: Peace, spirituality, company management, history, earth preservation, educational journaling, hands-on law of attraction, racial questions, identity as a woman, political thriller, love, divorced parenthood, new coaching methodologies, coaching stories.
Writing is more than writing. It’s a channel through which we can become more of who we are. Being more of who we are, we make a bigger difference in the world; it’s a natural progression.
“I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.” Emily Dickinson
Some of the accomplishments in 2005 can be shown with these Inspiration for Excellence statistics:
50 original Writers’ Tips, 14 rounds of Writers! Tapping into Your Flow in Writing and Write Your Articles or Book 3 hour long Teleclasses, 4 articles, 4 speaking engagements, 3 writing workshops with varied lengths, one of them held in the South of Sweden, another one met regularly all year, 163 individual coaching sessions with 37 clients – and ending at close to a full practice.
I’m continuously amazed at the results and successes of my clients, and I am grateful to have part in the process.
Results from a few of my clients in 2005:
- A client, who has written her whole life, hired me as her writing coach in the beginning of the year wanting to focus her flow in writing on producing a written work. She did not know what. She wrote her first short story and then started writing a novel. She will complete her first draft of her novel within the first few months of 2006, within about 9 months of starting it.
- After having worked on his dissertation off and on for 13 years, this client decided he needed to complete it. Among other improvements he cut over 400 pages of the manuscript. After 5 months of our writing coaching, he met his dead line and turned it in.
- After having wanted to write a non-fiction book for a couple of years and spent over a year taking notes, gathering information and creating exercises and methods, this client was frustrated and worried he wasn’t fit as a writer. He learnt the Flow Technique in writing in one of my teleclasses and hired me as his individual writing coach. In three months he has written regularly, fleshing out his ideas and further identified his book audience, purpose and format. Now writing it comes easily.
- Another client in the middle of his career in sales management felt he had come to a plateau with his company and was looking at making a change. He hired me as a professional coach and in coaching he rather quickly determined that there were other things going on for him and his family as well. In spite of changing bosses, he asked his company and relocated back to where he and his wife were from. At the same time he also prepared for possibly changing jobs. With the relocation the picture of the family expenses changed, leaving him less pressured financially.
Thank you for being my friends, my support, for being in my life. Thank you for everything you teach me and share with me. It’s time to look ahead again, through the bleak sunlight. This is 2006. Make it yours! Make it a fabulous year. Make a difference. May you have inspiration, flow and reach excellence.
Happy New Year,
Eva Liljendahl
Inspiration for Excellence
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Inspiration for Excellence 2004 News
First Annual Newsletter
The sun is going down on 2004. It’s an unbelievably warm New Years Eve here in Chicago, 58 degrees with people bicycling along the lake in shorts and sitting on the rocks in the sun. I am noticing the colors in the sky as the shadows now fall long and large on the grass. What happened in 2004? What was your year about? What did you learn? Who have you become?
Here are some of my responses to those questions. Perhaps there are places where your year mirrors itself in mine or the other way around.
The biggest thing in my 2004 was that I started my own company: Inspiration for Excellence. It’s a company offering seminars and coaching to organizations and individuals, for people to excel with ease in work and life or in writing. I formed the company right after I received the announcement that I passed my professional coaching certification exam. Then I launched a website for the company: http://inspirationforexcellence.com
What facilitated this coming about was the news in October of 2003 that I was going to be resourced out of my job. I was working for one of the most reputable companies in the world. I had a good salary, benefits, commissions, status and future. Or so I thought. My management and I had looked at my moving into management in the foreseeable future. I had a raise in 2003, modest, but still, I had a raise every year with the company. My manager had also agreed to pay for my professional coaching training by CTI in 2003. Things were good. I realize now that I would never have left on my own. I was too passionate about my sales, too engaged, too optimistic, too connected and too ambitious. So, it had to happen to me, fast and unexpectedly. And it did. And it shook me. I was laid off. Except it’s called “being affected by a resource action”. It was a blessing in disguise.
It has been a challenging and rewarding experience all around. One of the things that I am learning is to honor my own values and set some things straight in my personal life. Here is the biggest example:
I found myself burdened by believing I had to work very hard and almost all the time. There was no time that was the time to start working and there was no time set for quitting, for the day, or for the week. Since I worked at home, at customers’ and in an office, traveled a fair amount and carried the laptop and cell phone with me, it became all-consuming. This was what productivity looked like. I thought this is what it takes to succeed.
This is how I changed my belief system in 2004: I work three weeks and then have one week off, every month. This allows for continuous personal development, training and reading, relaxation and socializing. I also find that my creativity is spurred and activated by taking that time off. On top of this I take vacations, of course. And, no, I don’t kill myself in the three weeks. I work about 6 hours per day, 5 days a week. It works. I am learning that working hard is not the answer to success. I have always been too smart for working hard. What’s the answer to success? Perhaps focus, fearless risk taking, patience, asking for help, trust and being truthful.
For the first year of being in business for myself, the results have been very good. Here are some hard figures: 47 clients, 93 public speaking engagements, workshops and teleclasses and 18 Writer’s Tips (original, weekly, inspirational, writing tips, published via email).
I would like to share a few inspiring results from some of my clients in 2004:
- One of my clients came to professional coaching in the beginning of 2004 with the intent to find a new job. About 6 months into coaching he had created such a good situation in his present job, that he decided to focus on creating different new things in some other areas of his life.
- Another one of my clients came to writing coaching not quite sure what he wanted to write, just knowing he hadn’t really written before and wanted to write. In 2004 he wrote and published a personal feature article, two brochures outlining his services and 6 full chapters of his novel.
- In the 30 minutes speaking engagement of a monthly meeting of a professional association, one of the members commented on what was different for him after the interactive speech and said: -“I’m not alone!”
- A woman of executive ranks sought me as a professional coach as she was in an intense job search. In only 3 months, she clarified a new field and direction for her long term career, at the same time as she landed a consultant engagement in her present field to fulfill her short term goals.
- Another woman came to one of my teleclasses (classes conducted over the telephone) and commented at the end of it: “I have tried to write a non-fiction book for two years, I have written more on it in this one hour class that I did in those two years. Thank you!”
Through all of this, I have found a deeper sense of who I am and I am filled with gratitude.
Now, it’s time to raise our glasses, look into the eyes of our loved ones and exclaim: Happy New Year! 2005. May you be filled with peace, may you tap into your flow and may you excel with ease.
Sincerely,
Eva Liljendahl
Inspiration for Excellence
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Träna skrivandet
Skriven av Kristina Hall i Chicago
Vi var sex SWEA (Swedish Women Educational Association International) medlemmar som träffades hemma hos Agneta Rosenberg i Chicago den 5 april, 2005. Vi fick ta del av Eva Liljendahls erfarenheter som skrivarkonsult. Eva har ett eget företag, Inspiration for Excellence, som erbjuder tjänster och hjälp med att skriva. Eva är dessutom certifierad som ”professional life coach”.
Eva beskrev en teknik som kallas för flödestekniken och den går ut på att komma igång med det man vill eller måste skriva. Man kan använda sig av flödestekniken med i stort sett allt man måste skriva. Det kan vara allt ifrån ett informationsblad på jobbet till en roman. Vi deltagare insåg efter seminariet att man kan använda sig av flödestekniken i både yrkeslivet och privat.
Tekniken går ut på att man släpper de spärrar som hindrar en från att t e x skriva det där tack kortet till sin moster. Flödestekniken går till på det sättet att man börjar med några enkla ord. Det kan vara ord som har att göra med vad det är man behöver skriva, eller bara får en att tänka på det aktuella ämnet . När man gjort det sätter man en klocka på fem minuter och sen skriver man så fort som handen kan skriva. Glöm grammatik och stavning. Ta inte hänsyn till den kronologiska ordningen och skriv ner ord och tankar som de formas i hjärnan. När fem minuter har gått så slutar man att skriva och harframför sig sitt första slarviga utkast! Ta sen en paus och gå tillbaka och läs det du skrivit. Nu kan du plocka ut det väsentliga och börja formulera det du behöver skriva till en färdig produkt. Här nedan kan du läsa vad Eva berättade för oss att flödestekniken kan ge, samt vad alla oss deltagare tyckte efteråt.
Flödestekniken ger:
- En start, för att komma igång att skriva
- Utforskning av ämnet
- Tydliggörande eller brainstorming runt ämnet
- Förebyggande för att inte skjuta på att skriva
- Koncentration och fokus
- Inspiration
- Frigörelse av fantasi
- Kreativitet
- En rolig stund
- Ett grundmaterial för ett första utkast, möjligen
Och dessutom tar inte lång tid, som annars skrivande är känt för att göra.
Våra kommentarer:
“Jag har fått jättemycket ny inspiration. Jag går härifrån med flera nya bra tankar.”
“Det fungerar med flödestekniken. Vi kan alla skriva!”
“Intressant med flödestekniken. Alla tips uppskattades!”
“Bra teknik för att komma igång med skrivandet. Det är ofta man har svårt att börja, då är detta en bra teknik att använda.”
“En metod att komma över skrivkramp, att komma igång med en skrivaruppgift.”
“Inspiration att skriva mer och andra saker, typ dagbok.”
“Man blir förvånad att man har så mycket fantasi! Det är fascinerande.”
“Det är otroligt vad lite tidspress kan göra.”
“Det finns mer i huvudet än vad man tror. Vi bär på saker som vi inte ens vet om.”
“Plötsligt så fanns där en bild, från fantasin, jag relaterade till den, och skrev.”
“Det var lätt!”
Vi tränade flödestekniken tre gånger med olika ord som start och innan kvällen var slut gav Eva oss också några råd för redigering och skrivande. Bl a ska man alltid låta någon annan läsa igenom och redigera det man skrivit innan det slutförs. Använd inte ordet ”men” i skrivande och ta bort ordet ”inte”, vänd det till vad du vill säga istället med en positiv innebörd. Skriv så enkelt och kort som möjligt.
Tack Eva för en givande och inspirerande kväll! Tack även till Agneta som var värdinna och till Gunilla som lagat all den goda maten.
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