Category: Musings
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Uncertainty, Destination, and the Need to Know…
We are ruled by uncertainty. The need to know shapes our motives, what we ask for, desire, fear and seek to claim. And so it is in writing that we encounter a somewhat safe haven. The writer has a general idea of the destination of her or his story if not, how it shall end.…
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Writer’s Block, Travel and Encountering Ourselves…
It’s really hard to write. I’m traveling with my youngest. I hated leaving home. And yet I felt stuck. Stuck. Not a good place to be as a writer. And yet it happens. I don’t experience writer’s block, as much as encountering periods wherein it is just hard to write. I lack the stamina to…
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Art, The Muse and Beholding The Other…
The Muse then is that most terrified of all the virgins. She starts if she hears a sound, pales if you ask her questions, spins and vanishes if you disturb her dress. We might start off by paraphrasing Oscar Wilde’s poem, substituting the world “Art” for “Love.” Art will fly if held too lightly. Art…
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The Muse, Mystery and Grace…
“It isn’t easy. Nobody has ever done it consistently. Those who try hardest, scare it off into the woods. Those who turn their backs and saunter along, whistling softly between their teeth, hear it treading quietly behind them, lured by a carefully acquired disdain. We are speaking, of course, of The Muse.” –Ray Bradbury, Zen…
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Adobe’s Design CS4, Intoxication and Zen in the Art of Writing…
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you…writing allows just the right recipes of truth, life, reality as you are able to eat, drink, and digest without hyperventilating and flopping like a dead fish in your bed.” –Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing On reading this last night I considered…