Inspired Scribble encourages high school students to pick up the pen and chronicle their experiences. For the past four years, a $500 creative writing scholarship has been awarded annually to a student enrolled in the AP Humanities class at Monmouth Regional High School in Tinton Falls, NJ, for addressing the writing prompt with a submission that best exemplifies an authentic voice in their writing.
In January 2012, I began to share my own story — former Division One athlete turned newspaper reporter — and the role that writing has played in my life — some sort of saving grace.
Ideas like Write your life and What’s your story? were constant story lines that quietly persevered the darkest hours and outshone even the brightest moments. Writing gives you perspective, and it’s neat to watch the kernels of truth pop as each new revelation humbles your character. As the body falls on bended knee so does the mind fold another wrinkle, acknowledging the absolute power of the spirit moving words and action into being.
This is how I discovered writing; it has become that vessel of understanding for me. And I have learned that it is how we do things — with passion, enthusiasm, love — that demonstrate the things we believe. We are living, breathing metaphors for God’s story.
Inspired Scribble exists to illuminate the greater stories we are living through the creative spirit. By honoring the ideas that move us to write them down, we are acknowledging an invisible strength we believe to be inside us. Great things can happen here, in the home of unwavering faith. It is elixir for the ever-changing, always evolving narrative arc.
“The means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Keep breathing.
Kristen Dalton
Chief Inspiration Officer
inspiredscribble@gmail.com
732-996-3610
I think your words have inspired me to keep on writing. I love writing but sum times my confiden is not so hige so I run away from wrighting.
I have a photo a parent took of me as a child sitting on the toilet in my pajamas reading….I’ll read anywhere and almost anything. A favorite recent book is Quiet by Susan Cain, which I noticed on your Goodreads :). You write well – I look forward to reading more, being inspired to improve my writing and my participation in this joyous life.
Indeed you are very CREATIVE person not from mind but at heart. Awesome designation of Chief Inspiration Officer that is the utter need of today’s world in every respect. In fact, I felt the vibrations of your creative thoughts that would assist me further.