By Linda Formichelli
Karen Cioffi’s guest post this week, 7 Steps to Freelance Writing Success Through Positive Thinking, got a great response! I can see this idea resonates with many of my readers.
Karen’s step #2 was “Put your vision into words and other visuals.” For me, that visual is a video — and I wanted to let you know about Animoto, a FREE service that lets you create short videos. You can insert photos, select music, add headlines, and more to create a video vision board that will help you keep at your writing goals. My life and career coach, Kristin Taliaferro, recommended it to her clients — and I’m recommending it to you!
I haven’t used Animoto to create a vision board in relation to my writing yet, but in 2010 I made one to reflect my themes for the year: Health and peace. It’s two years old, but I still watch — and am inspired by it — often. Here’s the video:
LIGHT
I hope you find this helpful as you work towards your freelance writing goals and try to keep a positive mindset. If you create an Animoto vision board video and you’d like to share it, post the link in the Comments below! [LF]
I may have mentioned that I am starting to "play" with art a tiny bit. Play is a hard word for me to use because it's not something I do often or well. And art, well, I just thought that was the name of some guy I hadn't met yet. But I am trying. And I'm inspired by many posts about creative journaling from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
newport2newport , like this and this and this.
There's also been a whole lot of "visioning" going on, such as talked about over here on Shrinking Violets and earlier in the week d_michiko_f came over to work on vision boards with me. You can see her finished board over here.
And here's mine. (Click through to see larger pics.)
From
First Forays into Art"
This was how I started - with a magazine page glued over poster board and pens cut from Levenger catalog. I had a vision of a board of pens but I'm not crazy about the final version with the pens. I would have rather had a group of them like in this picture.
Vision board background. I had been watching way too many YouTube videos and wanted to try playing with an acrylic wash on a large piece of poster board. I figured it wouldn't matter
By Linda Formichelli
