Category: My writer’s manifesto
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Cultivating the Creative Habit
“The routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightning bolt of inspiration, maybe more.” Twyla Tharp THE CREATIVE HABIT I agree with Twyla Tharp. I think art for some of us has to be a kind of determined, intentional creative habit that we submit to. Willingly. I think habit is […]
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The morning ramble.
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. Ursula Le Guin I think that creative people struggle with the idea of recognition. There is something about feeling like a show off and being made to feel […]
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Alchemy
It’s not the artist that makes the art. It’s the art that makes the artist. The art tests us. The art shapes us. The art leads us. We think we create the art– but it’s the art that creates us. This is what is important. This is what we must learn. This is what we […]
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Keeping the promise.
“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet” –FRANZ KAFKA Here are my writing […]
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Happy New Year
So far the new year is having a bit of a hard time getting itself off the ground in my world. I am still tying up loose ends and processing 2011. It was a pretty intense and amazing also difficult year. I will announce my new years celebration when it finally rolls around. I do […]
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My writer’s process
Sometimes writers will talk about process. They will describe their process very specifically sometimes. Here are some random things I have heard writers say: “I always create an outline” “I never create an outline” “I write the last scene first I have to know where I am going” “I never know where I am going, […]
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A message to my fellow writers.
Writers are like stargazers, searching an imaginary sky for distant galaxies of meaning and metaphor– trusting in the existence of a story- an act of faith– knowing that the story is there. Somewhere beyond the flash of the idea. Scientists and astronomers have a name for the invisible material surrounding a galaxy. They call it dark […]
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