Lisa Jensen's Blog

• Top 5 Things NOT To Do While Writing Your Opus

  March 3, 2010

  • Unless you're composing haiku, the writing process is far more likely to be a marathon than a sprint. Because it's so easy to get overwhlmed, here's a handy list-gleaned from hard-won experience-of the Top 5 Things NOT To Do While Writing Your Opus:5  Ignore Housework. Believe me, I know how tempting it is to cite a screaming, crunching writing schedule as an excuse to not scrub out the bathtub. ...
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• Making Time

  February 5, 2010

  • Time is one of the most potent of human concepts. Think of all the axioms we've devised to groom and shape the unruly thing into something we can grasp: it flies, it crawls, it marches on. It heals all wounds but waits for no man. It's on our side, it's on our hands, it's of the essence, but where does it go? But all the language we assign to time amounts to the same conclusion: it's progress is ...
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• Why Winter White?

  December 9, 2009

  •     What's with this white Christmas we're all supposed to be dreaming of? The last turkey leg has barely been wrapped in foil and stashed in the fridge before we're bombarded from every radio, TV, and mall loudspeaker with the annual propoganda-winter wonderland, frosty snowmen, sleigh bells and reindeer. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.    Not to burst anyone's snow bubble, but I ...
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