Category Archives: words
Stories
Prose fiction is something you build up from twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks, and you, and you alone, using your imagination, create a world, and people it and look out through other eyes. You get to feel … Continue reading
Posted in Do the Work, From the Quote Box, NaNoWriMo, the creative process, words
Tagged dothework, NaNoWriMo, process, quote
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Starting April*
This came up as a memory and one that’s good to recall. These days we need all the encouragement we can get. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone … Continue reading
Posted in From the Quote Box, NaPoWriMo, Ripped from the headlines, the creative process, words
Tagged NaPoWriMo, NationalPoetryMonth, process, quote
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For the quote box – why poetry?
I do not believe that a violent imitation of the horrors of our times is the concern of poetry. Horrors are taken for granted. Disorder is ordinary. People in general take more and more “in their stride” — the hides … Continue reading
Posted in Do the Work, Poetry and Lyrics, taking time to look, the creative process, words
Tagged levertov, poetry, process, quote
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What You’ll See and Not See in 2017
So it’s a bizarre thing to be a blogger and an artist and writer. Part of the reason I blog is to share my process and work in progress along with whatever catches my eye or ends up in my … Continue reading
Posted in Art in the world, badass-ness, Do the Work, life on the web, Poetry and Lyrics, the creative process, watercolor, words
Tagged badassness, blogging, rules, watercolor, writing
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Something Only I Knew?
If you’re like me, you often sneak off to Urban Dictionary and Google to uncover what various shorthand acronyms mean. I usually take a stab at figuring them out myself before looking. Sometimes I’m right, sometimes my guess is far … Continue reading
