It's Love

Go through an entire day with the mindset that you love everything--everyone you see, everything you do, everyone you meet.

At the end of the day, write your insights in your notebook.

What's In A Name?

Choose a name you've seldom encountered, preferably one you cannot associate with a real person. For example, "Corinne" or "Maksim", whatever your gender.

On a day and a night that you are mostly alone, use that name for yourself, going about your day and your night as though that were indeed your name.

You will find, among other things, that:

--You will have a different color sense.
--You will develop different preferences for food.
--Your penmanship will change.
--Your behavior will also change.

This is, actually, the process of "possession". And what is a writer, after all, but a person being possessed by the current character he or she is writing about?

Note: Heighten your powers of observation during this exercise, and always in the service of creative writing, rather than merely going through the experience just for fun.

Purple is a complex color because it is a tertiary comprised of a myriad of mixes, not just blue and red. That is why, very often, no two pieces of purple clothing, bought separately, match. There will almost always be a clash of tints, hues, and shades.

See how the color purple applies to your sentences in a paragraph.

Be and become an artist, and that is good enough for the present and for posterity. You don't even have to be popular or highly acclaimed.

Being and becoming. Know those words and their meanings well.