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 »
My children demand stories of me. They call them “make-up” stories and they do not mean making up from a fight. They mean the battle itself of creating something from nothing, of piecing together characters and throwing problems at them and rallying those characters to take action and imagining the results of that action and
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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
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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 »
“Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.” – Andy Warhol I am stealing this quote from Devi’s blog earlier in the week—or last week rather. I am stealing it
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Our children have just “graduated” from preschool. Because of that, I’m a little tender-hearted toward the families with children slightly younger than ours are now. Just the other day, as I drove past the park to pick up my kids from one of their last days at preschool, I watched a mother and child walk
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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
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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
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What is a writers’ workshop? What does such a critique and conversation do for the writer, and how should readers approach their task? You probably have your own answers to these questions, based on your own experiences with workshops and how good or bad they’ve been. One of the most important things a workshop does
A Community of Readers: A Look at Workshop by Elizabeth Stark Read More »
I have heard that the novelist (and by extension any narrative writer or even any artist) has a responsibility to make the strange familiar and the familiar strange. It seems vague, but it’s also a pretty exciting concept once you think about it and how you might use it in your own life. It’s downright
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