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Welcome to The Sandbox Writing Challenge!
Learning About Yourself Through Play…
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Since I probably could get in big trouble for using the title of Roberta Allen’s book for this challenge, we’ll skip the jail time and fine and go straight to our own title, The Sandbox. If you’ve read my About Impromptu Promptlings page you know I’ve done a fair bit of spelunking in the Cave of my Soul, as I like to call it. You all have a cave, too. But since the goal of this book is to find our playful writing energy, I figured digging in a sandbox would work just as well. We can still have a good time getting dirty!
I hope this turns out to be lots of fun and even educational. Having journaled my way through a similar book before, I know there can be surprises, mysteries, disappointments, and even dead ends along the way. But there can also be some big Ah Ha! moments! So don’t be frightened. We’re right here playing beside you. And you’ll have your own colorful spelunking tools sand bucket and shovel to help you with your excavating digging into the deep caverns of your soul the nitty gritty of your life!
Please write your response on your own blog and include a pingback to Impromptu Promptlings. (If you’re not sure how to do that, just copy this link: The Sandbox Writing Challenge 1 and be sure to paste it at the first of your blog post. It will leave a link to your blog in the comments section of this post so we can all share in your wonderful discoveries.)
Now don’t fancy it all up, and don’t labor over it for hours. This is suppose to be spontaneous. So if you find you’re dawdling or writing a novelette, it might be helpful to dust the sand off your notebook tablet laptop PC coloring pad and set a timer for 15-20 minutes and then stop. (If you break your pencil or have worn the points off all your crayons, there are more in the supply cabinet. 😀 )
If you missed the little loosening-up exercise yesterday, you can go here to get the lists. I’m guessing we’ll be referring to them later on.
Ok! All set to get started? Shovels ready? Here we go!
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The Sandbox Writing Challenge — Exercise 1
You find yourself in a quiet room looking at your reflection in this beautiful old mirror. What do you see? Is there anything in particular you like about yourself? Is there anything you don’t like? Tell us about it.
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Based on Roberta Allen’s book, The Playful Way to Knowing Yourself.
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Loving the spontaneity of just jumping as if I never left!
Let me know if I did the ping back right… I can’t remember how this all works! EEK!
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Oh, never mind… can see that it did VVVVVV LOL
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I’ve found the first challenge ..yippee!! Very excited to have a go at these prompts from the beginning. I’m going on holiday so it’s a perfect time to write in my journal and enjoy some food for thought. Lots of ideas here so I’m going to be very busy! Hooray.
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Well I hope you have fun with them. They’re not in any particular order so you can jump all around. They’re all up at the top in the menu. 😀
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I am late to this, but here’s my effort nevertheless: https://inkhammer.wordpress.com/2015/08/26/in-the-looking-glass/
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Wow! I wasn’t expecting STS to class things up with a poem! Awesome! Thanks Scott! And you’re never too late… It’s not really a challenge anyway. Guess I should have called it a dare! 😀
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hi,:) just getting ready to post the draft I’ve just created spontaneously and read the comments – for a tag why not use somethin like Sandbox WC – that may seem like taking the pee, but would be memorable! Hope you don’t mind my comment! back soon with my post when i can decide is it just a pingback or am I reading outdated info for tagging…
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It’s all very confusing, isn’t it… I appreciate your comment. I had something else on there initially and finally went through everything I’d posted and just put the name of the challenge since that’s how I listed it in my post ong Blogging 101. Plain fact is, I’m too lazy to do all that again! LOL But thank you for putting so much thought into this challenge. I’m honored to have your input. Can’t wait to read what you’ve written!
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Found your page in plain view but somehow missed it earlier. You have it all very well organised 🙂
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I just found your challenge through Colette.I am wondering if there is a common tag to use so we can put it into the reader and bring up all of the replies? This is a fabulously interesting idea!
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I’m glad people are starting to get interested. I loved Roberta Allen’s other book about writing, so I figured this one would be good, too. I always thought I knew myself really well until I picked up a similar book and journaled through it. SURPRISE! So I thought it might be fun to do it with a group.
I have confused myself with the way I set it up, though. Next week on Tuesday when I post the next prompt (which I like a lot), I’m going to go ahead and just post my response on the same blog. Then all the pingbacks and comments will be in one post. I have put The Sandbox Writing Challenge on them in both the categories and the tags. That’s all I need to do, right? I’ve been on here since October and I DID take Blogging 101, but I didn’t pay attention the day they taught tags and categories! 😀 😦
So glad you decided to play with us!
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I think that’s great! If you have come across Shafali, you may know of her Creativity Carnival.She is the one who suggested we put in a common tag so we could put it into our reader and read everyone’s responses.
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You’ll have to let me know if it works. I had a bit different name at first in the tags, so I’ll have to make sure I change it. Thanks.
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I’ll be sure to find you ☺
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I am glad to play too.! Although the “reflection” one had me chewing my lip. I might come back to it. ☺
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I was totally flummoxed. There were other things I would have said had it been in my journal, but being transparent is hard on here. At least for such a personal prompt. I have a friend who is a counselor and he said, “You’re doing it right it you’re feeling vulnerable!”
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That is some very good advice. Thank you for that. I will remember it for my future writing adventures.
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Hi 🙂 Sorry I took so long getting back to you about the LA – was about to make quick post but having checked back see there’s no need now 🙂 Really happy to see you’re interested in this and made your way here. Hope to catch up with you again soon 🙂 cheers 😀
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Yep, your pingback came through just fine. I enjoyed reading what you said. I think it was probably a really difficult post for most people to do. I know it made me feel very exposed. But it’s been really interesting to see the different replies. I’m SO glad you joined up! Looking forward to reading more of what you write. Stay away from that sink now with that laptop! 😀
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Thanks for responding to my posts 🙂 I’ll set aside some blog-hopping time tomorrow now I made my responses – I know I read in earlier post comments that maybe a few are doing the excercise offline, but I’ll check yours that I missed at least two of so far. Hopefully I’ll find some others too 🙂 it’s fantastic that you’re sharing these excercises. My second post is very quick, but running out of steam – and the few minutes free-writing can still be useful – I’ve seen somewhere in your info about these excercises that we might come back to some in later ones. Looking forward to another prompt tomorrow.
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You know, hon, there’s no hurry. All the prompts will be listed in the menu above under The Sandbox Writing Challenge, so take your time. Just jump in now and catch up the other ones later. Don’t hurry through them. It’s okay to give them some thought. At least I did.
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Interesting challenge. Should I post my effort here? May I?
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Of course! I’d be thrilled to see what you’ve got up your writing sleeve.
I’ll put a post up on Tuesday with mine on, but if you’d like to go ahead and post something sooner, this would be a good place to put your pingback. I really should have said that. A week may be too long. I have NO idea what I’m doing.LikeLike
Thank you, Scott, for asking that question. It made me rethink the whole time frame on this. I’ve changed it up above. Like it lots better now. {{{Scott}}}
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