Why Brave Space Works (free prompt)

Sometimes it's the most random thing that can set us on the road to a creative session. Think about what set you off on that road the last time your own writing went well. In Brave Space we begin with a brief meditation. It is geared toward embodiment and being present. This lets us show up for our creativity. We aren’t working on autopilot.

Brave Space always provides prompts that meet you and your work wherever you are. There is often a word or an idea in the prompt that is the edge of a deep vein of gold for us to mine. It will catch you and take you somewhere.

For example (free prompt): have you thought lately about what season your work is situated in? What is your relationship to that season? What about your characters - how do they each relate to the season? What memories does it hold for them? Where do the sensory elements of the season take them?

Sometimes seeing someone else trust that their work matters is enough to help us believe that our work can matter too. Sometimes it's knowing that we're not alone.

Brave Space reminds us to give ourselves permission to make a discovery draft (a pre-first draft). Once you are working on a discovery draft, discoveries start happening all over the place, like walking through a city bursting with flowering cherry trees.

I believe that knowing you are about to make something and consciously arriving in the mind-state of allowing lets Brave Space work a kind of magic.

The more this happens, the more you can let it happen when you're working on your own. The more you want to work on your own. The more you find that dipping into your own creative well is easier than it used to be. Because Brave Space works. Try it!