Collect words and phrases that get your attention, that you love, that you can't wait to find a way to reuse in your unique way.

Store them in any handy alphabetized booklet or a data base in your laptop. Listen and look for them everywhere — on the radio, in music, in conversations, on Tshirts, in magazines … Rich words activate the writing juices.

A FEW FAB-U-LOUS PHRASES

• a woman's proper place is everywhere

• collective responsibility

• cut a path

• exert all your strength of character

• frozen moment

• gifts tied with heartstrings

• goal of iplifting each other

• infuses you with a sense of mission

• kitchen table priorities

• let go of narrow views

• not everything we've been told is true

• quiet revolutionaries

• shatter social conventions

• some choices should be made consciously — eyes wide open

• spirituality called to the table

• this is it, this is real, the rest is just decoration

• rest wisely inthe centre

• what is important, what is lasting, what is noble

• willingness to upset the applecart