by Devi S. Laskar | Feb 16, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
I’m in a race against time to finish reconnecting the aorta and sew up the chest. That’s probably a dramatic metaphor for revising a novel, but can’t you sort of imagine it? I’m operating on a living creature that is awake except when...
by Devi S. Laskar | Feb 15, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
I am waiting for my writing group to get back to me on the latest overhaul of my novel-in-progress. It’s been a strange time. A half-vacation. Should I write something new? Clean my office? Go through my kids’ toys and get rid of things they don’t...
by Devi S. Laskar | Feb 14, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
Last week we went down to Cayucos, a small town north of Hearst Castle. We went for our annual get together with my SIL and BIL to watch the waves, write, play cribbage and walk on the beach. One of the methods I use to get my head in gear is to write metaphors or...
by Devi S. Laskar | Feb 13, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
With You When you hear the phrase “can’t take it with you,” it’s generally referring to money and how you can’t take it along when you die. But you can draw a similar conclusion with all of your “good ideas” in writing as well. In the course of the past week, several...
by Devi S. Laskar | Feb 9, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
The late poet Stanley Kunitz gave several talks in and around Manhattan while I was still a graduate student in New York, and I was fortunate enough to hear him speak. One of the themes that ran through his amazing body of work and through his talks, was the theme of...
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