When I Can’t Write, I Draw

Working on some new visual material. I have a cinematic brain – as I write, I’ll see snippets of scenes and hear the dialogue. And when I can’t pick out just the right words, it flows out in other ways. For some things, I can’t really imagine it any other way.

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The Faceless Woman and Quiet Creativity

I’ve felt quietly creative lately. On my bucket list, there is a section of creative goals. They include things like reviving my Creative Every Day project and finishing the draft of my long novel by the end of November, but these are all in motion rather than right here on the page. So, I want […]

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I Know, I Know…

(…the picture above is one that I took in my mini-photo shoot yesterday – I just came home and I definitely don’t have time to create a new one. So sue me, if thou canst!) Here are today’s highlights:New dawn, new day, but what is to come of it? A soft rain falls from the […]

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Semi-Automatic Learning

Today I attended Righting the Craft – a class on revisions – and guess what? I actually want to revise! Throughout the class, we gathered many writing exercises that help you unlock your own work (it’s very similar, actually, to analyzing published works in English class – I just never thought of applying the same […]

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“Our Love Don’t Have to Change… No It Don’t… Have to Change…”

I wish I could photograph sound, because I have been listening to John Legend’s first CD [Get Lifted] over and over again in my car, at my house and in my head… My goodness, so much soul music! It preserves me emotionally.There is really little to say otherwise. Here is the latest on my Goal […]

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Pure Emotion

Paint with the wind. I don’t want to talk about today, I don’t want to talk about tomorrow, I don’t want to talk about the past or the present or the future. All I want to talk about is you.Call it conceited, call it a ‘burst of passion,’ call it what you will but I […]

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