For the Quote Box*

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Mary Beth Frezon

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. – George Iles

Worked for a bit on the NaNoWriMo thing tonight. First off, I’m quite sure there is a legend about a certain place in the book that I can’t remember and stupidly did not make note of in the ref/research stuff…

More annoyingly I had a brilliant thought for an opening quote, probably while driving. I remember thinking that it was JUST right. Perfect really. I’m sure it was totally brilliant and if I think of it again I’ll try to actually capture the thought somehow. It was perfect.

*once again a perfect quote from Sandy, who’s Waiting for the Muse

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Cloudspotting on the way home

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Mary Beth Frezon

View of the day

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What did you do today MB?

Posted on August 27, 2013 by Mary Beth Frezon

Worked, felt quite hard at times in the very busy sense of hard.

Had dinner with Mom and we did a lot of chatting and looked at her computer and did some other stuff.

Drove home. Took out a bit of trash in preparation for trash day tomorrow.

Sat down and looked, again, at the end of my NaNoWriMo piece and thought, again, ‘how could you have left off writing without coming to the finish?’ aka ‘what the heck happens next???’

Got an icepack for my arm and went back to reading.

Decided to try and be more organized or something about the whole thing so I read a little more starting in the middle. Then I opened up a new document and titled it “todolist” with the date. I started with a short list of accomplishments, things that had brought the story thus far. Then a couple fairly hefty to-do items.

Finally a section of “topics opened and not used yet”

I think that’s all I can do tonight so I’ll leave the to-do list to ferment in my brain a bit.

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Haiku on a Grey Day

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Mary Beth Frezon

haikuandall

the internet fades
the cell strength intermittent
time to be focused.

when the night comes on
I’ll ask the gentlest wind
to carry my love.

water lime and bitters
cool refreshing for my lips
and quenching me all.

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Why we do what we do

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Mary Beth Frezon

I guess as artists one of the things we do often is think about what we do and why we do it. We’re in tune with the process that goes on with us, what we know how to do, what attracts us, what we might need to learn next, what our questions are, etc.

I watched this video by Gwenn Seemel with tips on how to vlog and it seems like it applies to blogging, teaching and almost everything else. Her five tips:

  1. Talk to people.
  2. Keep it short.
  3. Smile!
  4. Use images.
  5. Know why.

It’s certainly true that the links I visit most often are those sites that reveal something about the writer-blogger. I like to see what sorts of things they look at, how they think about their work and work-in-progress and how it all fits together with their day-to-day lives. They report the mundane, the excursions, the revelations. I have every reason to think that if and when we meet in real life that we’d have no problem finding something to talk about because we’ve had this blogger/reader conversation.

Without further ado, here’s Gwenn and her vlogging tips:

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