Episode 5: Body Talk

Written By Jacqueline Allen

🎧 AUDIO-ONLY VERSION ↓

It's episode FIVE and we are coming to you LIVE from our beautiful new home! Tragically, we had to leave our magical clubhouse behind (for now), but un-tragically, we have luxurious new things now, like chairs!

This episode we check in with our BODIES BODIES BODIES to explore the various ways they hinder and help our creativity. We do the 'Body Talk' activity we assigned in Episode 4, and assign the next activity -- a very fun writing exercise from cartoonist queen, Lynda Barry!

Topics Discussed:

  • Talking to ourselves

  • Waiting to be rescued

  • Drawing messes instead of cleaning them up

  • The connection between nature and our bodies

  • The effect of having an audience (real and imagined)

  • Voyeurism (real and imagined)

  • Freaks of all kinds

Thank you for tuning in and please submit your responses to the Lynda Barry activity on the Secret Superstar Society Patreon! Love you!

The Next Activity

🐵 Lynda Barry Writing Prompt 🐵

This activity is from cartoonist Lynda Barry's wonderful book, What It Is.

  • Begin by spending 30 seconds relaxing your body (body scan, 5 deep breaths, etc.)

  • Take a moment to focus in on the images that come to mind when you think of the word WINDOW.

  • Decide on one image or scene to focus on.

  • Ask yourself the Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How of that image.

  • Who is present? What do they want? What is happening? What time of day is it?

  • Lynda recommends using first person perspective as you do this: 'I am...'

  • Free write about this image/scene for 10 minutes straight. Never stop moving your pen as you do so, even if when can't think of something to write, keep your pen moving. Lynda recommends having 2 notebooks or pieces of paper: one for writing on, and one for doodling on (she recommends drawing spirals) when you aren't sure what to write. The goal is constant motion of the pen for the whole 10 minutes.

  • Don't focus on the quality, this doesn't need to be well written. It's an experiment!

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Episode 4: That’s Healing, Brother