by Devi S. Laskar | Dec 24, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
In graduate school, I was fortunate to be a student of the late great Lucille Clifton. Not only was she an outstanding poet, but she was an exemplary teacher. And she used her wit and sense of humor to convey so many layers of meaning in her often short poems. She...
by Devi S. Laskar | Dec 21, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
Recently, in our wonderful Mentoring Class, Elizabeth Stark posed some interesting questions to us, about why we think we write and what our mission is. My wonderful colleagues at the Book Writing World generously shared their answers and allowing me to publish them....
by Devi S. Laskar | Dec 20, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
I’m not new to the computer, and I’m not new to moving files from one “place” on the computer to the other. I’ve been working on a computer and moving things for years, even decades. Yet accidents happen. I accidentally erased a lot of my work recently, as I moved it...
by Devi S. Laskar | Dec 19, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
There’s a lot of pressure on me to make money from my writing. Just doing art for the joy of doing it doesn’t mean scheduling time for it during the weekends. Art is something that’s acceptable to do only when all the real work is done. Well the...
by Devi S. Laskar | Dec 17, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
I first posted this fabulous list of Henry Miller’s about a year ago and I still think his advice is just wonderful. It is the end of 2012 and while I loathe to add another “list” to everyone’s “to-read” pile, this one seems to be...
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