by Angie Powers | Sep 28, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
We have all heard it now a thousand times: your work needs some kind of obstacle to keep your readers engaged. And it makes sense. Who wants to read a story about two kids who fall in love and, you know, it’s great. Everyone is sort of cool with their...
by Devi S. Laskar | Sep 27, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
So I snuck away from my real world a few days ago and drove north to San Rafael, and waited in line for what seemed to be hours. When the double doors opened I gave the woman behind the table my name and she handed me a yellow ticket. A few minutes later, there I was...
by Devi S. Laskar | Sep 26, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
It’s been a crazy fall so far, as I uprooted my family and myself a couple of months ago and moved across these United States and am trying to: 1. Get unpacked; 2. Find my things that help me write or paint; 3. Kick the kids to the curbs in front of their respective...
by Elizabeth | Sep 25, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
I think and write about writing as facing the blank page. These days it’s more likely to be the white rectangle with an electronic backdrop of gray, toolbar above and dock below. A torturous invitation: what do you have to say? A playground of space to be filled. For...
by Angie Powers | Sep 21, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
I don’t mean to be facile, but sometimes, writers think like anorexics. As artists or writers we too often view our body of work as an actual extension of ourselves, out there to be judged, critiqued and ultimately, to fail at someone else’s idea of beauty. And that...
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