{"id":2925,"date":"2011-05-08T07:40:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T11:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?page_id=2925"},"modified":"2011-10-26T13:30:18","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T17:30:18","slug":"the-ideas-adding-words-to-life","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?page_id=2925","title":{"rendered":"Adding Words to Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m compiling ideas for how anybody can add words to daily living.\u00a0\u00a0 Words enrich life.\u00a0 I&#8217;d like to think a regular diet of excellent, sometimes funny, sometimes profound, sometimes poetic, hopefully always well-written words, even a few at a time, might make a difference in this word-wallowing world.<\/p>\n<p>These links lead to a lot of\u00a0 suggestions\u00a0for how to live literarily.\u00a0 They will take you to the many ideas I&#8217;ve collected for how to sprinkle some words in\u00a0your life.\u00a0 Many of these are simple actions, easy to incorporate.\u00a0 Others take more time.\u00a0 All of them, in one way or another, will give someone who is not a literary professional ways to live in a literary way, adding a bit of depth and fun to living.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Write<\/strong> \u2013 Writing is a cornerstone of literary living.\u00a0 Expressing thoughts, ideas, feelings and impressions on paper\u00a0helps\u00a0me own and\u00a0incorporate everything I take in.\u00a0 Writing provides an outlet for things that really need to get out: joy, anger, ideas, dreams and so much more.<a title=\"Writing: Floodgates of the Soul\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=572\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a title=\"Writing: Floodgates of the Soul\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=572\">Read More <\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Ideas for ways to add a bit of writing to your life\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?cat=13\">Writing Ideas<\/a> (Many ideas for ways big and small a person can add writing as a part of every day life.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Memorize Poems<\/strong> \u2013 On this blog I\u2019ll post tips and ideas I\u2019ve discovered about memorizing poems,\u00a0 songs and prose pieces, plus a list of links to all the poems I\u2019ve committed to memory.<a title=\"How I started memorizing poems\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=2931\"><br \/>\nRead More<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"The List of Poems I\u2019ve memorized\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=4595\" target=\"_blank\">The List of Poems I&#8217;ve Memorized<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Poem Memory Tips Articles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?cat=208\" target=\"_blank\">Poem Memory Tips<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Three Years of Memorizing Poems\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=4614\" target=\"_blank\">Three Years of Poem Memorizing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Host a Literary Event<\/strong> &#8211; A literary event or party surprises everyone who attends.\u00a0 Who expects a meal with people reading poems or singing songs interspersed throughout to be anything great?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Literary parties center around a theme, includes good food and drink, and gives guests the opportunity to participate.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Literary Events\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=2581\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Articles about literary events\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?cat=4\">Literary Event Articles<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Play with Words<\/strong> &#8211; I love words.\u00a0 They&#8217;re fun.\u00a0 Words are a lot of things to me: comforting, beautiful, entertaining.\u00a0 They are also toys.\u00a0 I like playing with words, experimenting with sounds, making up new words and more.\u00a0 I even collect words&#8230;<br \/>\n<a title=\"For the Love of Playing with Words\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=868\">Read More<br \/>\n<\/a><a title=\"Word Play\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?cat=11\" target=\"_blank\">Word Play Articles and Examples<\/a><a title=\"The Duck Series\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?cat=426\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nThe Duck Series<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Original Poems\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?cat=519\" target=\"_blank\">Original Poems<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Word Collections\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?cat=864\" target=\"_blank\">Word Collections<strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>&#8211; Books and reading were hugely important to me and still are.\u00a0 The written word has always been such a key, central part of my life.\u00a0 I owe so much of how I grew up, what I know and how I think, to reading.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Reading: A Literary No-Brainer?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=1461\">Read More<br \/>\n<\/a><a title=\"Reading Articles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?cat=3\">Reading Articles<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Devotion<\/strong> &#8211; Spirituality is universal.\u00a0 A lot of people the world over have faith in some sort of higher power, a god or gods of various descriptions.\u00a0 Because of this, people do devotional acts of one sort or another: prayer, singing, corporate worship, meditation, studying sacred texts, acts of charity and more.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Devotion and Living Literarily: A Natural Pair\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=981\">Read More<br \/>\n<\/a><a title=\"Devotion and Spirituality Articles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?cat=8\">Devotion and Spirituality Articles<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m compiling ideas for how anybody can add words to daily living.\u00a0\u00a0 Words enrich life.\u00a0 I&#8217;d like to think a regular diet of excellent, sometimes funny, sometimes profound, sometimes poetic, hopefully always well-written words, even a few at a time, &hellip; 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