Today is Day 25 of the March Slice of Life, a daily writing challenge, hosted at “Two Writing Teachers”. hard to believe there are only 5 more slices for March!
Yesterday, I visited Jen Baum’s blog and was reminded of a writing exercise I always did with my classes at the beginning of the year. Yet, I have never done for myself. She called it a “Taxonomy of my Favorite Things“. usually when we did it in the classroom, it was a list of possible topics to be used for writing. I love Jen’s idea of recording all of your favourite things.
Here’s mine:
A: ART, Australia, aboriginal art, afghans, apples, angels
B: Bill, Bible, books, bunnies, ballet, blogs, bananas, butterflies
C: crochet,children, Christmas, computer, collage, chocolate, card playing, cribbage
D: dogs, dancing, dragonflies
E: England, eggs, English muffins
F: family, friends, flowers, fall
G: gelli printing, games
H: hugs, hearts, horses, humour, herons, humming birds
I: ice cream
J: Jer, Jeff, jam & toast
K: kisses, kittens
L: love, laughter, learning, letters
M: Matt, music, movies, mountains
N: nature, news
O: oceans, oranges, the Olympics
P: prayer, photography, pizza, pinterest, peanut butter popcorn, painting
Q: quilts, quiet , questions
R: reading, roses, red, rest, relaxation,
S: stamp carving, spring, sunrises & sunsets, swimming, scrabble, Scattegories, snow, shadows, swans
T: teaching, twitter, tea, theatre
U: unicorns
V: violets, the Voice, volleyball
W: writing, water, watercolour
X: XOXOXOX
Y: yarn
Z: zoos
There are probably more I could add, but this is a good representation of things I like and things I like to do.
Beverley A Baird 
What fun! I’m bookmarking this in my list of writing ideas… I feel like getting a “favorite” for every letter could be harder than it looks! 🙂
Some letters were definitely harder but still got at least one or two for those.
Intriguing way to look at our lives. Maybe add visuals?
Kevin
I had thought of adding pix but at midnight, writing it was all I could manage! lol
This is really cool! I did something similar to this in my writer’s notebook a few weeks ago as I planned a post called “An ABC Book About Me”, but it was more a list of things that described me. I now want to do this but with a list of topics I can write about. Thanks for the inspiration! If you want to check out the ABC book post, here’s the link:
http://aggiekesler.wordpress.com/2014/03/12/an-abc-book-about-me-sol-12/
Great idea. It was fun to do.
Hmmmmm. I’ve seen these but have never done one. You’ve got me thinking. Such a valuable structure! This really reminds me of a heart map :).
b
THey are fun to do. Try it – I’m sure you’ll like it.