COLORFUL WRITING

Colorful Writing—Let Your Words Flow!

 Imagine a river of rainbows. Now turn those misty rainbows shades into saturated colors—molten lava reds, sunset oranges, sunflower yellows.

                                                                Photo by Steve Johnson

This colorful writing exercise will loosen the muscles of your

 imagination. Dive in and keep writing. Don’t edit, don’t pause.

 Write the first words that come to mind.

 Artist Paul Klee said, “Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.”

 Colors speak every language.  They show our moods, feelings and

 memories.  They describe physical things such as mountains and

 lakes and fields.  Some people think in colors.  Four-year-old Quinn

 said, “There are colors in heaven that we don’t have on earth.” 

             Invent a new color and give it a name.

Think of colors of invisible things:  the wind, gravity, love.

Write a paragraph using colors instead of words for things like the

 sky, a baby’s face, a rainbow, someone’s name, a summer morning.

Pick a color.  Think about all the things that are that color.  How do

 you feel about them?  Imagine that your entire body is this color,

 inside and out.  Imagine you are a magnet, drawing everything that

 color to you.

            What is the shape of your color?

               How does it move?

            What dances does it like to do?

            Where does it go when it flies?

            What season was it born?

            Where does it take you?

            What is its favorite time of the day or night?

            What does your color wish for?

            What does it dream about?

            What hides behind it?

            What sounds does it make?

            What is it a song of?

            Who are its friends?

     Most of these colorful ideas are from Karen

 Benke’s fabulous book Rip the Page! Adventures

 in Creative Writing. Buy it! You’ll like it!