Writing Into Your Curiosity And Creativity - by Jocelyn Bates

COURSE

Writing Into Your Curiosity And Creativity

With Jocelyn Bates

In this course, I'll walk you through the benefits of creative writing as well as personal writing and we'll enter the creative writing process together. Inside you'll find inspiration, curiosities, questions and prompts to have fun with, guided writing exercises and timed music, frequency and nature sounds to write to. In the first few lessons I'll be speaking to the power of writing, letting go of your conditioning around writing and committing to a practice. In the following lessons I'll be offering prompts and different ways to write into prompts as well as how to take one prompt and see if from many angles in order to spark your curiosity and creativity even further. In the second to last lesson I introduce you to one of my favorite writing exercises Finally I send you on your own creative journey of writing. My hope is that by the end of this course, you have widened your curiosity in the creative process and in the human experience.


Meet your Teacher

Jocelyn is a Cultivator and Curiosity and Creativity in the Human Experiment. She is a Soul Art Guide, Akashic Records Guide, Yoga Nidra Guide, Human Design Mentor and an Expressive Arts Therapist/Intermodal. She is also a Spoken Word Poet, Teaching Artist and Published Author. She has been working with people of all ages and backgrounds for over 25 years to develop their creativity and curiosity in their human experiences.

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14 Days

214 students

4.8 stars

15 min / day

Authenticity

English


Lesson 1

Welcome! The Benefits of Creative Writing And Some Inspiration For Your Journey Through This Course

Welcome to this Course! I'm so happy to have you here <3 In this first lesson I'll be talking about the benefits of a Creative Writing Practice as well as offering Inspiration for your journey. I'll also be outlining how this course is set up and give you a short writing exercise to begin.

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Lesson 2

Playing With The Writing Experience

In this lesson you will learn about different ways to enter into writing as well as ways to explore your writing environment and writing instruments. At the end of lesson is an invitation to have some fun. let loose and play on a page.

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Lesson 3

Creating A Writing Habit That Meets You Where You're At

In this lesson you'll be prompted to think about creating a writing habit for yourself. You'll learn abut the benefits of having a writing habit and you'll have the chance to commit to your own personal writing habit for the duration of this course.

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Lesson 4

Structure Vs Freedom in Writing

In this lesson, you'll learn about the benefits of having a structured approach to prompts as well as a non-structured approach to writing prompts. You'll also learn ways to infuse structure or infuse freedom into any writing prompt. At the end of this lesson is a writing prompt to get curious about your relationship to structure, either personally or creatively.

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Lesson 5

Prompt #1

In this lesson we begin to explore different sets of prompts to enter into writing. In this lesson the prompts are focused on more personal writing but feel free at any time to approach the prompts from a character perspective. In this lesson you are also introduced to the idea of beginning again in your writing. There is also some timed music for you to write along with

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Lesson 6

Prompt #2

In this lesson you'll be working with your body and/or body parts. You'll be given a few different options of prompts to choose from, and you can always go in your own direction! There is timed music to write to at the end of this lesson.

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Lesson 7

Prompt #3

In this lesson we begin to explore prompts that are more grounded in creative writing. You will be given a list of things to choose from and offered different levels of working on this prompt. There is timed music at the end of the lesson to write with if you choose.

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Lesson 8

Prompt #4

In this lesson you'll be working further in the creative writing prompts that use lists of things, however, this prompt has a bit more to chew on for you and there's a bit more discretion as to how much you use the prompt you choose. There is timed nature sounds at the end of this lesson for you to write with if you choose.

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Lesson 9

Prompt #5

In this lesson you will use a quote as inspiration for your writing. At this point I invite you to begin to intertwine the personal and creative process of writing as you explore this prompt. There is timed music at the end of this lesson to write with if you choose

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Lesson 10

Prompt #6

In this lesson you'll be working with lines of writing as prompts. You'll be given a variety to choose from and offered ways to make these lines your own. There is timed music at the end of this lesson to write with if you choose.

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Lesson 11

Prompt #7

In this lesson you'll have the chance to get quiet in your body and begin to bring awareness to your five senses. You'll explore an environment to write into. You'll be given different ways to enter into writing in an environment. There is timed music at the end of this lesson to write with if you choose

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Lesson 12

Prompt #8

In this lesson you'll have the chance to work further into your environment with story and character or create an entirely new environment in a different way to work into story and character. There is timed music at the end of this lesson to write with if you choose.

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Lesson 13

Prompt # 9

In this lesson I introduce you to one of my favorite Creative Writing exercises! Come along with me and have some fun with this one! There is timed music at the end of this lesson to write with if you choose.

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Lesson 14

The Final Lesson

In this lesson there is a re-cap of all of the larger themes of this course. It is confirmation that you have indeed gotten more curious and more creative just by committing to these lessons and putting your pen to paper. I am so honored to bring you along on this journey of Curiosity and Creativity! Namaste LOVE. Jocelyn b.

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4.8 (4)

Recent Reviews

Joanne

March 14, 2025

Loved this course and have been blown away with stories that have come out of me. I am still writing a story with the environment lesson, things just keep coming to me and I go away and come back to it with more to add.

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