creativity | creativity
Sep.02.2009
Shhhh... I have a secret. I'm writing a new novel. I'm not sure why I'm doing this because I can't think of a worse time to start in on another novel, which will probably wind up like my last novel: rejected by an agent and then reduced to hiding in my file cabinet, shamed and bruised. I start the...
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Aug.27.2009
Why is it? I always seem to find so many other things, besides writing, that need my attention. There is the house to clean, the pets to take care of, the laundry, shopping, bills, gardening, mowing, shoveling snow, making calls, paperwork, and more, much, much more.
I'm thinking that writing is...
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Aug.21.2009
Mary´s middle boy says that music is what feelings sound like. I think this is genius. And after reading that, I kept wondering what they would look like. To express something as abstract as a feeling through sounds, images or words requires a high level of sensitivity.
My five-year old has been...
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Aug.17.2009
Yesterday, as I was riding my bicycle in the hills near my house, I came upon a garage sale where a man was selling two cartons of old picture books. By old, I don’t mean the discarded, chewed upon Scholastic paperbacks you find at most garage sales, but worn and lovely books from the forties ,...
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Aug.15.2009
According to today's Daily Beast the legendary and, yes, old, Bob Dylan was questioned by a twenty-something police officer in New Jersey when someone reported “a scruffy old man acting suspiciously.” The twenty-something cop had no idea who Dylan was and made him prove his identification back...
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Aug.14.2009
In high school, many of us submerge parts of ourselves. I've read three novels lately where high school aged characters expose to us, the readers, their hidden, subterranean lives. One character is Danny in Francine Prose's A Changed Man. Another is Paul in The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim...
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Aug.07.2009
DENVER, CO. — D. Gilson and Ben Pfeiffer, editors at The Pocket Review, will be participating in the 2010 Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) conference in a panel with Brian Shawver, Jane Hoogestraat, and Linda Moser. The panel discussion focuses on the standardization of creative...
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Aug.07.2009
Until the editor of the excellent Branta: the might of write asked if I'd like to contribute a post about my daily writing routine, I didn't think I had one. Then I pondered for a few weeks, observed myself, and discovered that I do! It's all here, and I am a little embarassed by it... I feel I...
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Aug.06.2009
As a lifelong writer and painter, it seems to me that people involved in the arts have no choice but to be obsessive. How else could we muster the tenacity to persevere with our impossible projects and dreams? As a painter, I’ve always been obsessive. When I’m working on a painting, I’m totally...
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Jul.31.2009
July 31
MY BABIES
Too often I have abandoned the infants of my creativity to doorways and charities. Having little patience I did not raise them to their intended station. Joyful parentage need not stop at the cutting of the cord. Downplaying the importance of each birth, I would leave...
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