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For me, Vegas is a vacation from being overinhibited, in the highly overinhabited yet uninhabitable city of complete uninhibition. ~Tammy Bloemzaken I’m back from Vegas and feeling like a slacker; I haven’t posted in five days which after posting almost Continue reading Back from Vegas
Pocahontas’ body, lovely as a poplar, sweet as a red haw in November – Carl Sandburg My dreams have always been strange and you know what they say about telling others about your dreams. (they’re only interesting to you)Anyhoo, in Continue reading Pocahontas Sleeps
The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.~ Robert Cormier I can’t remember a time, really, when I haven’t been a writer. Reading and writing were Continue reading No, I’m Not a Brain Surgeon
You must write every single day of your life…You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads….may you be in love every day for Continue reading Being in Love for the next 20,000 days
“I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks… And think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries… Then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each, Continue reading The NyQuil Chronicles
“It is a paradox of creativity that the very way to move beyond the conventional stage [of writing] is not to try harder, but to take a seeming step backward: to reawaken and cultivate in ourselves some of the ways Continue reading Childlike Writing
Thanks for all the touching comments on my memorial post. I won’t be posting my daily until this evening. This week take 20 minutes a day and do some freewriting. Don’t ever lift the pen from the page or your Continue reading A Good Technique for Freewriting
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring–it was peace.” Continue reading In Memory of Rhiannon 1993-2008
It’s not plagiarism – I’m recycling words, as any good environmentally conscious writer would do. ~Uniek Swain Writers can’t let a good word,phrase or piece of work go by them unnoticed or ignored.My notebooks are full of hastily jotted down Continue reading Recycling Words
A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, Continue reading Perfectly Healthy Sentence