Discovering Your Inner Writer's Palette with Danese Grandfield
When an artist prepares to paint a picture on a blank canvas, he or she squeezes paint from tubes of color onto a palette. For writers that palette consists of words we have seen and heard and lived throughout our lives. Learning to mine those words from the depths of our own life stories, squeezing the color out, can be difficult, but the pictures we create through them can be powerful, applicable to all genres of writing. What to bring? A favorite story from your childhood (one you have written or one you loved to read), plus a willingness to do some coloring with crayons- outside the lines- of course!
Danese Grandfield is a writer and a photographer. She considers words and photographs to be her artistic tools, using both to create openings of inspiration and hope on her blog at www.openpassage.wordpress.com . Writing empowers her as she connects with her inner voice through the sharing of her own stories; photography inspires her to see ordinary things in extraordinary ways. Sharing them together conveys her artistic vision.
