WHAT ARE YOUR GOALS?
This is lesson 3 of the Find Your Voice workshop. This is a wonderful summer workshop on storytelling sponsored by rukristin papercrafts.
http://rukristin.com/findyourvoice
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." Henry David Thoreau.
Goals are essential they say, so you know where you are going. Frankly, this lesson has been more difficult for me than the first two because I am not a goal setter. I much prefer knowing my destination and traveling along at my own pace, taking side roads if they beckon or look interesting. I guess my old housemother, Miss Spears, was right when she said of me, "She never gets in a hurry, but she always gets there!" And, I always do!
However, I have made an attempt to look at where I want to go with storytelling and what I want to accomplish. So, come along as I meander through this bend in the road.....
Create your own mind map. Map out your storytelling goals — or go a step
further and map out all your creative goals to see where your storytelling
goals fit in. Figure out howyou want to use your
creative energy to meet your storytelling goals.
I used an art journal/zentangle page for my Mind Map because,
right now that is what appeals to me.
Each flower is a different aspect of my storytellingand all of them
are connected to one main root – my “creative mind.” I am not really happy with it and may re-do
it at a later time, but I did have fun doing it.
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PROMPTS
Prompt 1 (Crafting Based)
Create a project that makes you happy. … When you're finished
with your project, come up with 5 reasons that it makes you happy and write
them down. How do they compare with your creative goals?
I made this for my
Friends journal; it is Frog and Toad…
This project makes me
happy because:
- it
is about friends,
- it
features two of my favorite little critters,
- they
are at the beach, (anything connected to the beach makes me happy!)
- I
am pleased with the way it turned out, (I am no artist and I was trying a
new zentangle pattern,)
- it
is simple and carefree – no underlying messages.
This meets my goals in
that
- it
tells a happy story,
- it
was fun and relaxing to work on,
- my
Grandchildren liked it. (One of my goals is that people will like my
stories.)
Prompt 2 (Writing Based)
Write a story that makes you happy…When you're finished with
your story, come up with 5 reasons that it makes you happy and write them down.
How do they compare with your
creative goals?
Prompt 3 (Picture Based)
Grab a favorite photo or favorite series of photos. Come up with
5 reasons that it makes you happy and write them down. How do they compare with
your creative goals?
I combined these two prompts and tried something a little different - a poem.
Beside the Sea
Moonlight shimmers on the sea,
Stars shine bright in cloudless sky;
Waves lap gently on the shore
Winds blow softly with a sigh.
Sun shines bright upon the waves
They roll in with crash and roar…
Symphony of wind and sea
Settles deep within my core.
Moonlight ruffled, sunlit waves -
Night or day they speak to me,
Fill my soul with peacefulness
Only here beside the sea.
Dianne Housch Conley
14 September 2012
Why this makes me happy..
1.Just looking at these photos and remembering the good times I had.
2. I was at my favorite place - Jekyll Island, Georgia
3. I was with two of my favorite people. It was a "girls week retreat."
4. This was my first week of retirement. What a way to start retirement!
5. The poem was written at a different time, but expresses my feelings about the sea shore.
This was a great lesson, and I must confess, it wasn't quite as difficult as I anticipated.
Take care
Gertie
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