The dog and I enter the park the same way every day and we both like to nose around the new things that come up. We always enter on the corner of Washington and Dekalb, going through the stone and wrought iron entry that flanks the front gardens. The dog always finds something there to […]
Catch!: by Melanie Lee Read More »
Here’s the trick, here’s the “skinny:” If you love a particular line or phrase, if you’re coddling a particular scene or character, then you have to give these prized precious things a nice shove…into rush-hour traffic. Kill these things, swiftly, with no remorse and move on. It is in human nature to protect something or
Continuing Opposite Day: by Devi Laskar Read More »
The other day I met a woman who had heard about my art a day challenge and wanted to do something creative every day. She is not a self-proclaimed writer, and hadn’t really worked in any fine arts in years. “I spend every day taking care of family, and worrying about what to make them
A savory tale: by Devi Laskar Read More »
I tricked myself a little, made myself “look” so to speak as I foraged for food in an unfamiliar city with an incorrect address on my GPS. I couldn’t find the grocery store, I had hungry people waiting for me and I had transposed something in the address because I was basically driving around in
Why Pay Forever? by Devi Laskar Read More »
I’m having a hard time imagining this even with the proof just before my eyes. I’m almost at the end of the challenge I set out for myself: in a few days’ time I will have completed a year’s worth of art. That’s 366 pieces (thanks to my know-it-all friends who assure me that I
A year, broken into 366 pieces: by Devi Laskar Read More »
Here’s what’s influenced my world this week: 1. Write or die: “putting the prod in productivity.” There’s an app for everything, and in a recent issue of the L.A. Times, there’s a review of the “write or die” app that is being more frequently used these days – in an effort to keep the effort
Roundabout III: by Devi Laskar Read More »
It’s back to basics, y’all. You want to write? Great. You like the idea of being a writer? Fantastic. You have great thoughts that you need to share with the world? Wonderful. You want to achieve freedom through art? Yippee. Get out the two ingredients you really need: a really cheap ballpoint pen and an
Fifteen minutes to freedom: by Devi Laskar Read More »
There are people in my family who say there are three types of people in the world: the ones who know the math and do it, the ones who think they know but really don’t know the math and therefore don’t do it, and the ones who know the math but CHOOSE not to do
konigsberg bridge games: by devi laskar Read More »
I was e-talking with Elizabeth, about the fact that she had wild turkeys and redwoods in her backyard and here I was stuck in Brooklyn, beautiful though it was, while she was holding one of the in-person writing workshops I could not attend. “Yes,” she said, “but you’re in the center of the known world.”
Center of the known world: by Melanie Lee Read More »
Book Writing World members recently discussed Booker Prize-winner The Line of Beauty, by Alan Hollinghurst. While most everyone agreed that Hollinghurst writes brilliant descriptions, there was considerable disagreement about whether anything happens, or if the book even has a plot. Most of the group of seven stopped reading halfway through or earlier because they lost interest
Plot or Plod?: by James Black Read More »
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