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 schools; […]
Boot camp & hitting the “send” button: by Devi Laskar Read More »
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 a time I used large sketchbooks,
The Blank Page and Other Spaces: Finding Silence by Elizabeth Stark Read More »
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 belief can lead to some damaging ways of
Does Your Body of Work Suffer from a Disorder? by Angie Powers Read More »
“Writing is very easy. All you do is sit in front of a typewriter keyboard until little drops of blood appear on your forehead.” –Walter W. “Red” Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning sportswriter. In light of how ‘easy’ the writing process is, I’ve started calling what I’m doing right now, the-finding-of-the-story-part-of-writing, as a “Zero Draft.” John R.
Zero Draft: (Guest Blog) by Chris O’Brien Read More »
The writing may not be on the wall, so to speak, but it’s definitely in the air: Today’s posting is a mini-round-up of all the writing-related things that I’ve noticed recently, books recently published by authors whose works I greatly admire. Writing consistently and forming a “writing habit” has been difficult lately, but I’m trying
Roundabout September 2012: by Devi Laskar Read More »
I just created a new, free class in the form of a three-part guide to “Modeling Masters,” and I want to share with you some of the lessons I learned or remembered in the creation of this product. 1) Pieces. Breaking down what you do intuitively into steps you can teach and transfer to someone
Five Writing-Related Lessons I Learned This Week “Modeling Masters:” by Elizabeth Stark Read More »
Lately, I’ve been struggling between the image of what I’m supposed to do and what I’m actually doing. There between my imagination and my actions lies a great chasm, a seemingly uncrossable chasm without even so much as a rope bridge to bring me across. On the one side, I have the ghosts that follow
Self-Help: by Angie Powers Read More »
When I was a kid, there were stories that I never tired of hearing or reading. One of my earliest memories starts with the sound of my paternal grandmother’s voice retelling the Mahabharata, and the exiled Pandavas living in a house made entirely of wax. One of the first stories I remember reading are the
“Go To” List: by Devi Laskar Read More »
Writing is a journey and a difficult one at that. It is often a struggle to write, and it is often a treacherous trek to establish the habit of writing consistently. The rewards are amazing and tangible: if we do it, we end up with good work, tangible pages that can go toward completing a
Learning NOT to listen: by Devi Laskar Read More »
The body remembers stories. The body remembers stories in details. What we were wearing, where we were standing, what precisely we were doing when . . . The world is frozen in time, only not frozen, but captured. A small film of a moment. We see it. This is the moment before, the ordinary world.
September 11, 2012: Stories, by Elizabeth Stark Read More »
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