Tag: playwriting
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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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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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Full Moon coming July 3rd. Get your wishes ready
Getting ready for making wishes on the full moon, July 3rd. I used to have tea parties with my friend Rachel once a month before she moved to Boston. She taught me the different names of the full moons, as they appear through the wheel of the year. The last one was the strawberry moon […]
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On Moths and purpose and creative process and such
Metamorphosis is a profound change, from one stage to the next, in the life of an organism, as from the caterpillar to the pupa and from the pupa to the moth. I think I am in my moth stage right now. After months as a pupa, I am emerging from my cocoon and ready for something, […]
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Some work in progress–The beginning of a story-reposting to inspire myself to finish it.
This is the beginning of a story that I scribbled down in the coffee shop. It showed up in my notebook today like this. My grandmother was quiet and mysterious and knew mysterious things. She was part gypsy, at least that is what I grew up believing. She could heal wounds, and cure sickness, and […]
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Magic cures for writers block- Day One. Ask good questions.
In this post I am going to address the notion of writer’s block. In all honesty I don’t actually get full blown writers block. I write every day. I am always journalling, blogging, scribbling, pondering, musing, reflecting, or working out something on paper. Writing is how I clear my mind, and make sense of the […]
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keep going
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better” Samuel Beckett I am not a person that likes to make mistakes in public. And I am squeamish about the subject of failure. But here I am publicly declaring that I have failed more than a few times. I have given up, quit, […]
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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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Ideas
People ask artists and writers “Where do you get your ideas?” I heard a story somewhere that when the brilliant science fiction and fantasy writer Roger Zelazny, was asked this question, he said something like: “Every night I leave out milk and cookies, and in the morning the cookies are gone, but there are loads […]
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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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