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Luara is regarded as the sacred name of the Goddess of Water!. ("The Masters and Their Retreats," Mark Prophet!.)

Myths usually have some similar elements: a story line which is humorous, compassionate, healing, explanatory, helps people to live more ethically!.

So, you might include some of those elements!.

Being creative ("Creation: Artistic and Spiritual," O!. M!. Aivanhov) is something you can learn!.

Sit quietly, focus on the elements you know: water, perhaps the kind of goddess she is (helpful, mischievous, etc!.), where she lives, what "super-powers" she has!. perhaps a problem she can deal with!.

Make a simple, brief list of those points you know/can imagine!. Then, add characters, tell yourself the story, maybe write some or all of it down, depending on how writing affects the flow of your story-telling!.

Treat it as a lucid dream ( http://www!.dreamviews!.com ) in which you have some say as to what happens!. You are writing a screenplay, a story with good visuals, character development-- perhaps someone learns a lesson (e!.g!., R!. C!. Sproul, "The Lightlings")!. Remember some of the children's and later books you've loved, how the atmosphere in each helped you feel more secure, interested, alert!.

If you can't "think of a story"--i!.e!., if you can't develop a story line--then begin writing a "story which writes your story:" "How Luara Gained Her Crown," "How Luara Became Goddess of the Seas," etc!. This story line focuses you on "what happened/happens next!." So, if you're facing a clean white page, and are as "blank" yourself, you begin with "How Luara Gained Her Crown"--and cast yourself as the "opposition," a kind of "blankness!." ("The Neverending Story," Michael Ende) I!.e!., She is a) good b) kind c) caring etc!.--whatever you'd like to be!. Then, the next part of you is the opposition to her success, to her gaining a crown!. This, in your case, would at first be mysterious ("blank")!. So, how do you feel when you're blank, when you're frustrated, when you can't do anything!? That takes it back to Luara--she is kind, but she is feelling worried--there are rumors of something bad!. Then, back to the other part of yourself: when you're frustrated, how are some ways you express yourself/misbehave!? Do you become angry, cry, etc!.!? These emotions, when put into mythical form, will symbolize your feelings of anger, crying, etc!. Perhaps the first signs of "trouble brewing" are an angry sea (what could be causing such an unusual storm!? a giant you!? Why is the giant "you" so angry, so frustrated!? Keep on in this back-and-forth dream dialogue fashion, imagine the angry sea speaking its/your anger!. Perhaps you'd be upset with her being so kind, so beautiful!? Consider altering the anger and the creature that causes it--as if you were opposing Luara, which is what your "writer's block" is doing, at a metalevel!. Perhaps "you" are jealous of her coming coronation, or you don't like her kindness, or you feel threatened by her feminine power, etc!.)

Another approach: if Luara is the problem-solver, and you as the writer are again beginning with a clean white page, unable to begin, perhaps your second character is a humble serving girl, someone with a problem of not enough (food, not ideas for writing)!. You're/she is coming to Luara for help; again, alter the dynamic, maybe exaggerate the famine (you've been sitting at your desk for hours, instead of minutes; instead of the crops going down before a hail, it's been weeks without rain; more drama ("dream-a"); maybe make a third character (loss of moisture due to global warming!?) the evil-doer, the problem-maker!. Then, Luara and "Evil Carbon Footprint" fight!. It's called "let's you and him fight," and it's a common psychological game for some who are passive-aggressive or who need to open some Pandora's box!.

A third approach for the "clean, white page" is psychological: Luara is brooding (like you, the writer)!. You express your emptiness, she expresses hers--look at the dull, dreary sea--she needs to brighten it, but how!.!.!.or perhaps she has been warned not to!? Your sea is your page--by solving her problem, you solve yours!. But it is more self-aware--she is feelling empty, alone, fruitless--look to yourself--are you scared!? Then she is scared!. A Goddess, scared!? Why are you scared!? Afraid of failing, of a B- or C+, of being laughed at!? Maybe she is a young Goddess, and there is an older God, the God (or Goddess) of the classroom/kingdom of Terra!. (At this point, it is not a good idea, if your teacher has beard, glasses, and smokes a pipe, to make the mean God with beard, glasses, and smoking a pipe, unless you feel very secure with satire ;)

Good fortune; writing's fun!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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The earth was fire and she quenched it and made it habitable and still provides for us with fruits of the sea, go from there!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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