HONEYSUCKLE
A Tiny Prompt for cultivating curiosity, creativity, wonder and presence
Welcome to this week’s Tiny Prompt - (which I know is not especially tiny!).
Pick up your journal and pen and take 10 minutes to focus and enjoy creating. Afterwards, pause, and notice how taking this time to create has shifted your mental, emotional, physical or energetic state.
If you’ve already read the introduction below, jump straight to the prompt underneath.
Tiny prompts offer you new ways of noticing and coming into contact with the world through your senses. They guide you to cultivate wonder, curiosity, creativity and presence by becoming more intimate with the natural world and life around you. And when you re-discover the magic in everyday existence, your creativity comes to life.
Twice a month on a Wednesday, I’ll share a tiny prompt to stimulate your senses and spark your creativity awake.
You’ll receive either:
an image
a sound clip
a video
a word
And a tiny prompt to spark your writing/creativity.
Prompts may be offered in the spirit of fun and joy, depth and beauty or pleasure and succulence; they may be soulful, philosophical, serendipitous, sensual or simple and sometimes offer perspectives on the shadow and light aspects of life.
Tiny prompts are taken from my in the world explorations of the things I notice in everyday life, with an emphasis on the natural world, to encourage fresh thought and new perspectives for your creativity.
THE INVITATION
The invitation is to use the prompt to write or create in the form you most love for at least 10 minutes per week. Write a poem, a story, an article, song lyrics or use the prompt for personal journaling. If you’re a multi-media creator, it might inspire a print, a drawing or painting, a dress design or a piece of jewellery - take the prompt and create in whichever way lights you up. (The prompts will mostly be writing/story focused, however, ONE SPARK, can create multiple expressions).
WHY?
It’s not about creating something polished, or even completing anything, but rather staying open to what could emerge. Our senses connect us to the world around us. Our imaginations and creative lives need continued nourishment. Consider the prompts an opportunity to wonder, to explore and gather sparks of stories, thoughts and ideas for your personal library of creativity.
Feel welcome to share how the tiny prompts spark your creativity in the comments section for each one.
Enjoy!
Jane x
Tiny Prompt
A NOTE ON PROMPTS: You may find each prompt takes you off on a completely different tangent that has nothing to do with the original prompt – Go with it! Follow the inspiration; take a morsel, a mouthful or consume the whole prompt plate. Stay curious, trust, and see what emerges in the moment.
Today’s prompt is an nature-based oracle card:
Set your timer for 10 minutes.
I picked this oracle card specifically for my readers from my Celtic Tree Oracle Deck. UILLEAND HONEYSUCKLE is a flowering vine with a spiralling pattern of growth. Its beautiful flowers offer sweet nectar for bees and hummingbirds. Key words from this card include: hidden secrets, lantern that lights the path, hidden treasure, bringing light to the darkness, illumination, clarity, restoration, the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
What thoughts, memories, feelings come up for you when you hear the word HONEYSUCKLE? Look at the image on the card, what does it make you think of? What do you see? Or do any of the key words spark something? Take a few minutes to write your thoughts.
The Prompt: Option 1 - Look at your gathered words - is there one or two that offer a starting point? Start there OR challenge yourself to use ALL the words you’ve written down to begin a poem. Option 2 - Write a story, weaving some of your gathered words, beginning with this: I followed the sweet scent of honeysuckle lingering in the warm air, I wasn’t expecting it to lead me to…
When you start writing/creating - keep going for the whole 10 minutes even if you have no idea where it’s going. Use your writing/creating as a way to see. Follow the spiralling pattern of growth, like the honeysuckle, and don’t stop until your timer goes (or carry on if you have the time).
with love,
Jane x
The Language of Nature - Outdoor Creative Writing & Nature Connection workshop is coming up on Saturday, 28th of June, for those near Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
The next live online Tiny Prompts Writers’ Circle is happening on Tuesday, 8th of July - join us for 50 minutes of creative focus and connection.