Tag: creative process. cures for writers block
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Some lists.
I reblogged this post from a few years ago I think I have come a long way from this but some of them still apply. Reasons I get stuck. 1. It is hard to keep going when the destination seems so distant and unknown. 2. It is hard to keep believing in yourself– when […]
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Accepting uncertainty and living the questions in life and art.
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Live in the question.” Rainer Maria Rilke I love these words. I try to call them up when I face uncertainty I am in the middle of developing an idea that is slowly forming in my mind. I don’t know if it is […]
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Overcoming creative blocks– magic cures.
I am in bed recovering from surgery and bored out of my mind. The wasteland of daytime television stretches out before me endlessly it seems. “I could be working on my play.” I say to myself hopefully. As I open the lap top I listen for an engaged response from deep within– some murmurings of […]
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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 […]
Lynna Goldhar Smith Paintings 