Love and Apocalypse: externalize your inner apocalypse with creative writing - Tapa blanda

Externalize your inner apocalypse, using creative writing to feel better. Get inspired by 25 writing prompts with evocative photographs that encourage writers to make meaning of their life experiences by discovering, emphasizing and illuminating changed perspectives. Every character and every story we write, is autobiographical. This means that though we may have felt like the walking dead at times, we have a chance at redemption. Writing apocalyptic stories can convey a message of change, and even hope. Ultimately, though your stories may be seeded from people you know, these characters have traveled through the system of you; your heart and spirit and mind. Consider writing as a clearing of sorts. Our writing can transform us by offering opportunities to explore, examine, and understand outcomes from our lives, and to imagine and manifest alternatives. You can evoke a sense of justice and peace by changing perspective.

Ellen Szabo practices and promotes the use of creative writing for personal investigation, enrichment and social change. She earned her B.A. from Harvard College, with a concentration in English and American Literature, and her M.Ed. from Columbia University Teacher’s College, in Counseling Psychology. She writes and teaches with a focus on how innovation and creativity can illuminate, inspire and advocate compassionate transformation. She teaches Creative Writing for Social Work at the University of Iowa School of Social Work. Her private practice, based in Cape Ann, Massachusetts, provides creative writing instruction, coaching, editing and support to individuals and groups, locally and online.