Category Archives: the creative process

From the pages to the quote box

From Brenda Ueland’s If You Want to Write

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OK, now what?

So okay – there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You’ve blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want. – Stephen King Continue reading →

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Why I work “big” (from the quote box)

I want to be very intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience, to look upon an experience as with a reducing glass. However, when you paint the larger picture, you are in it. — Mark Rothko Continue reading →

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Robert Genn 1936-2014

The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless. — Robert Genn Continue reading →

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Another stash – beading stuff

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