Category Archives: the creative process

TGIF, and for a new book

Posted on April 6, 2018 by Mary Beth Frezon

Molly better hope the book doesn’t fall over on her because it’s big. Really big. It came in a big box stuffed with a lot of crumpled up paper to keep it from moving around. The first handful of pages … Continue reading →

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Day 4 NaPoWriMo

Posted on April 4, 2018 by Mary Beth Frezon

Grey stubble of trees along the river fuzz along the ridges waiting for spring clouds grey above, water steel hills dark, trees bare and shaking in the hard wind of today we’re all trembling, waiting for spring praying for strength … Continue reading →

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Day Three NaPoWriMo 2018

Posted on April 3, 2018 by Mary Beth Frezon

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality… Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The slatted sky shows bars of light and gray this … Continue reading →

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Day Two NaPoWriMo 2018

Posted on April 2, 2018 by Mary Beth Frezon

The drive in and lunchtime On awakening, scrim of snow, April second all kinds of fake news. On April second, the snow, a scrim obscuring, all kinds of fake news pouring from the radio dripping down the screens Turn them … Continue reading →

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Day 1 NaPoWriMo 2018

Posted on April 1, 2018 by Mary Beth Frezon

Now and again I plop my two dollars down rather randomly not looking for biggest payoff I cast my money down for speculative numbers. I’ve yet to win. Yet may last awhile. It has so far. What do I buy? … Continue reading →

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