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 in the centre
• what is important, what is lasting, what is noble
• willingness to upset the applecart