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Continuing on with the next chapter in Writing The Wave by Elizabeth Ayres
Part 2 Going Deeper
Coping with the Salt, Salt Spray
Chapter 5
Control Your Writing by Structuring It
Elements
Set up a piece of paper into 4 quadrants
1.Now write one of each of the 4 elements into each square (earth, air, fire, water)
2. in each box, put a color
3. now a shape- you can draw it or describe it
4. now a sound
5. now a feeling or emotion that you get from each quadrant
6. now a symbol or visual image that represents the character of the quadrant
set your timer for 3 minutes
7. create your own layers
Remember layers are general categories of experience. Or fill each box with whatever words or phrases that leap to mind.
Don’t go any further until you complete Step 7!
8. draw a large compass on another sheet of paper with N for north at the top, S for south at the bottom, E for east to the right and W for west to the left.
9. at each compass point, insert the name of one of the 4 elements (earth, air, fire, water)
10. Now prepare four separate pieces of paper. At the top of each of these sheets writ of these sentences-
A. North meets East (_________ meets ___________)
B. East meets South (_________ meets ___________)
C. South meets West (_________ meets ___________)
D. West meets North (_________ meets ___________)
In each of the blanks, write the elements that you associated with that compass point.
Set your timer for 7 minutes
11. for the next 7 minutes, create a piece of writing that connects the two elements for sheet A. It could be a poem, story… whatever. To help trigger your inspiration you could use your four boxes from Step 7 as well.
If the timer caught you in the middle of a thought, don’t worry. Just leave off wherever you are and move on to step 12.
Set your timer for 7 minutes
12. move onto sheet B. and repeat the process from step 11
Set your timer for 7 minutes
13. move onto sheet C. and repeat the process from step 11
Set your timer for 7 minutes
14. move onto sheet D. and repeat the process from step 11
Set your timer for 10 minutes this time
15. treating pages A thru D as if they were 4 sections of one work, create a fifth section of this work, which is a kind of summary. In other words, draw together all four of the elements.
Once again set up a piece of paper into 4 quadrants
16. write the name of one of the seasons into each of the quadrants
17. now generate process layers based on the four seasons into each of the boxes, just like you did for the four elements- no need to set the timer, but take no more than 15 minutes in total on the four boxes
18. Now prepare four more separate pieces of paper. At the top of each of these sheets write of these phrases-
A. Spring meets Summer
B. Summer meets Autumn (or Fall)
C. Autumn (or Fall) meets Winter
D. Winter meets Spring
19. Taking about 10 to 30 minutes, using the process layers you created for each of the seasons, create a story, poem or essay for each of these pages.
Congratulations! You’ve just completed Chapter 5!
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Elisa, Stik-or-Treat 
While I haven't been following the Writing the Wave series of newsletters, I did enjoy this exercise. Then again, I have this habit of chronicling my dreams, which might explain why I gravitated to this newsletter. In any case, I'd just like to say it's a great exercise, even if it's just in a journal (which is where I scrawled out my first attempt). Thanks for sharing!
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I just recently purchased Writing the Wabe. I enjoy it immensely. Thanks for suggesting it.
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