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Woolgathering

10.07.2010

I have a bone to pick with Webster. I looked up the definition of woolgathering and found: an indulgence in aimless thought or dreamy imagining. Indulgence? Aimless thought? That’s absurd. There’s nothing aimless about thinking. Especially when thinking, imagining, and musing are such important writers’ tools. In a previous post I talked about finding the time [...]

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Vanilla Surprise

02.06.2010

Some people meditate. I knit. It allows me to downshift, and to center. (Which then helps me focus on my writing.) My obsession preference is to knit socks. If you want an analogy, general knitting is to exercise what knitting socks is to yoga. Working a sock, whether toe up or cuff down is like [...]

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Dating, anyone?

01.05.2010

Serious art is born from serious play. So says Julia Cameron. Why play? Because it refills the well. Because it lets our imagination soar without tying it down with ‘musts’ and ‘shoulds’. And because it’s just fun to let go and be silly. Now, I can think of lots of ways to play. And what [...]

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If Ideas Are Everywhere…?

14.11.2009

Where do ideas come from? A lot of students ask me this and I’m often pressed to find a good answer for them. Why? Because the answer sounds as if I don’t want to answer the question; as if there’s this secret cache of ideas that only other writers know about and newbies aren’t allowed [...]

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