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Journaling

Writer’s Dirt

12.07.2011

Last night I was reading an interesting take on writer’s block. In an article in The Writer (“Survivor Out of Carolina,” August 2011), Dorothy Allison talks about her “three-year interruption where everything I wrote was dirt.” Like Allison, I always equated block with not being able to write. But she says it’s otherwise: “No, you [...]

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Pretty Please, May I …

10.04.2011

A lot of times, students ask me what they should be writing. They want to know what readership age, what genre, what topics. I get a lot of tell me what you want me to do. It puzzles me. Over at My Tangible Art, Lisa had an interesting post about giving yourself permission. I thought [...]

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Succinct and Eloquent

20.03.2011

One thing journaling has made clear for me is the pleasure of tightly written prose. You’d think it would be the other way around. Pouring whatever is in your head onto the page until it was drenched is the prerogative of journaling. And first drafts. Except my journal isn’t a draft, and it isn’t Morning [...]

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Journaling

13.03.2011

Writing is my preferred form of communication. Don’t try and get me on the phone. Not interested. And heaven forbid trying to get me in front of a podium. Hate it. Yet, when it comes to keeping a journal I’m just as timid. Okay, timid isn’t the right word. Reluctant is. And I’m not sure [...]

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