The power of words.

1. Free Association

This is probably the most popular writing exercise to get the juices flowing. Pull up a new Word document, take a deep breath and just write whatever comes to mind. Dig as deep as you can into your subconscious and don’t worry about what comes out. Sometimes there’s a mental blockage with something that’s been bothering you, so it helps to write it down and get it out of your system.

          Words. What are words?  Are they just a bunch of letters that spell out to mean something?  Who would've thought that a single word used incorrectly can ruin a mental image. If used correctly it can paint a perfectly good picture within our imagination.  When you link them with another word it gives us the power to visualize a world beyond our reach.  Put more than two powerful words together and they create an emotion for us. Sometimes they even bring out our senses and make us do something with our mouths  (yeah you know when there's an action regarding a mouth's movement, you know you do it; like "she parted her chapped lips and moistened them with her tongue provocatively") while we read along, if not then those words are not strong enough to move us. Do you know the power that I am evoking to you right now? I can make you feel a degree of pain, a ray of hope, maybe leap for joy or even give you a great deal of sorrow. I know you're sitting there taunting me and I am challenged, but I will not satisfy your wanting, for my words right here are only meant to show you the power of words, that lead you into questioning how powerful could they all be. Words spoken are different from words written in ever descriptive way possible to make you see its true power.  Without written words there will be no spoken words, and written incorrectly it gives a different tone and sends a less powerful meaning to them.  

Imagine the biggest performance of your life. 

Dancing in front of a large crowd and you're having so much fun grooving to the beat of the song. One step to the left jump to the right, turn around and jump to the left over and over again, moving away getting exhausted as you twists the wrong way. Your left knee cracks sending electrical shock all over your body, the tingly feeling along your spine. You want to keep dancing without drawing any attention to yourself but every move you make is as if someone's hitting your knee with a jack hammer in the front and another person stabbing it on both sides. With every shallow breath you take inhaling, exhaling, to calm your shocked body, every nerve around your knee began twisting itself in all directions on their own accord.  Your skin pinches itself, peeling away from your leg, your left leg weak and wobbly you could barely put any weight on it.  As the music die and you try to take a bow and to stand straight you feel the dislocated knee cap, making you wince. Your eyes began to water you want to scream from the pain, the hammering, twisting, peeling and weakness all at the same time but you couldn't. No sound wants to escape from your mouth that is now wide open along with your teary eyes.  You bite your lower lip to deal with the pain avoiding all the urge to bite harder preventing it from bleeding.  You recall the incident and remember that the feeling of it all is like cracking a crab leg, with each crunchy noise it make as you twist its own joints to open it and take them apart.