by Angie Powers | Oct 27, 2016 | Practical Alphabet, Uncategorized
I used to dream that something was threatening me and I needed to run but I couldn’t move my legs, couldn’t propel my body into motion. In my waking life, a fear took hold that if I needed to run, I somehow wouldn’t be able to get going. Then one day I realized that...
by Angie Powers | Oct 20, 2016 | Practical Alphabet, Uncategorized
Say yes to your writing every day. Say yes when people ask you to read, when a line comes to mind and desires you to grab a pen, when the time comes to wake up and write and you feel like sleeping or you don’t know if you have anything to say or the right words to say...
by Angie Powers | Oct 13, 2016 | Practical Alphabet, Uncategorized
The more you write and read and edit others and edit yourself, the more you develop a kind of x-ray vision. You take a look at rows of text and see, at once, the flesh and flaws of it, the frame, the bones, the muscle, the hairline fractures, the breaks. Because you...
by Angie Powers | Oct 6, 2016 | Practical Alphabet, Uncategorized
There is one way forward. Words to the page. Every day it feels like a bigger risk. Good. Take it, like a treasure left carelessly close to the mouth of a cave or a wallet left peeking from the mouth of a purse. Take the risk; agree to the fear. Write. Write your way...
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