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Free Writing – 5/1/11
Assignment – Look at picture of a dilapidated cabin in the woods by a stream Try to write by images only. Slow weathered boards faded past the ability to support weight or hold heat. The eerie patterns...
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Free Writing – 2/11/11
Assignment – Picture of a Glass house Describe the person who lives here. Her gray hair, shorn short, close to the ears, is too cropped to frame her face so much as crown it like a queen. Her clothes,...
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Free Write – April 2012
Prompt – These are the things that make me Me The biting sarcasm, the incessant inner monologue, the grammar nazi who can’t spell neccessary. The constant urge to headbutt, the pages upon pages of...
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Inspiration at the Post Office?
I’m the first person to say one can never predict where a new story idea will spring from. Yet, this one blindsided me completely. I was at the post office sending off a package to loved ones and the...
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And on to Chapter 2
Well, I went down the pub like a good doobie, and I wrote. Yet, I did not work on The Guardian of Lost Kings. No, not at all. I wrote something new. I wrote TWO CHAPTERS of something new. Woops. Yet,...
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Words Worth Saying
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. ~Phyllis Theroux I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little...
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There’s a Tale Somewhere in Here
This song inspires a good deal of my Crunchy nature to unfurl and dance in the crisp winter air, but it also inspires my needs to curl into myself and pour forth words. Some songs just make words...
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A Song to Drive Through the Night to…
I feel the call of the road something fierce, these days. I felt it when the word West appeared over the highway sign as I tried to find my way out of Quebec. West calls to me. West sings my name on...
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Planning Miracles
“If we try to plan our own miracles, then we limit their magic. There is a constant dance of events taking place, just in every patch of soil, let alone in every town, city, country. Of all the tiny...
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Free Write – 3/11/2010
I’ve always hated that part of my imagination – the one that finds a way to completely rob my characters of hope. I’m never afraid of a story unless hope is lost. Other writers, Hollywood,...
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