Category: Articles and Essays
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Imagination and Life
Who is your imagination and what makes it tick? Every artists owes it to her or himself to contemplate her or his imagination, what energizes it, what it craves, what stifles it.
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Memories
Our reading culture is taken memoirs, the implication being that memories hold value. And yet how much can we trust our recollections.
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Loss
At a loss for what to write? Examine your own losses. Seek out what’s hidden within you. Ever had a drought of faith? What about the death of a loved one, a lover, someone you thought you loved, but realized you didn’t even like?
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Dry Spells
Writers often encounter dry spells, blockages, or what seems a loss of imagination. We most often call this writer’s block. I actually think that writer’s block is a catch-all term for times when we don’t know what to write. Not knowing what to write can occur in many phases of our writing, the outset of…
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Brainstorming
Corporations brainstorm to uncover new ideas. They even take employees on retreats and oftentimes pay psychologists and artist incredible amounts of money to stimulate and present ways in which employees can think out of the box. Why then do writers and authors not give ourselves more time to daydream and brainstorm into planning our stories?
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Writing With Both Sides of Your Brain
Editor, author, and educator, Shon Bacon suggests that there are two fundamental aspects to a writer’s process. One is the purely creative aspect. The second involves the analytical dimension of crafting a story. Psychologists and scientists have long theorized that humans accomplish varied tasks by utilizing either one or the other side of our brains.…
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The Path of Writing: Word-by-Word
Commitment to the word is also a vow to filling the blank page, either every day, every other day, each week, etc. We all have our schedules, our routines. Nothing gets written without them.