I have been with my therapy on aphasia language for working on learning stories.
What we discussed was that once I get going, I write much further than I can. We talked about how to start with bullets to start and then work tiny short stories. I find ways that I can’t think the stories to discuss what I want to say. We decided to create something new in this story to help with Aphasia.
I wanted to story of my playing golf last week.
The first thing was to do bullets:
- Golf on Saturday, June 12
- Downstairs and Upstairs Locker
- It was a shotgun
- I started at the 13th hole
- I started a par 5, and I had a 7.
- I had a 26 handicap
- The Blue and White tees when I usually play White or White and Green
- I had a 45/48
- Stableford points (Par):
- Ace: 6 points
- Double Eagle: 5 points
- Eagles: 4 points
- Birdies: 3 points
- Par: 2 points
- Bogey: 1 point
- I had a 40 points
The second to find a dictionary of golf terms and look at a magazine on similar short stories. For example:
- Country club
- Golf course
- Practice range
- Locker room
- Golf bag storage
- Reserving a tee-time
- Caddies
- Golf cart
- Handicap
- My Clubs
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- Driver, 7 woods, hybrid 20o, 23o
- 5 to Wedge Irons
- Three Wedges – 50o, 53o, 56o
- And my putter
From my magazine:
- I drove the ball
- I hit the 50o Wedge about the 80 yards.
- The shot felt good
- My entire round hole by hole, shot by shot.
- I lifted my head during my swing
- Misread a putt
- I rehashed my 18 holes
Finally, I used Scrivener to help with my stories and Grammarly to help me with language issues.
With that, it gave me what I was able to start my story.