Tag: imagination
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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…
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Of Cognition, Revision, and the Internet…
“The emerging model of cognition is as a sustained act of imagination, and therefore continuously active participation in the consensual hallucination of reality.” –Kris Saknussemm ( Write what you know–and be sorry) The Writer Magazine May 2010, author of the novels, Private Midnight and Zanesville What if everything we experience in life is truly the…
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Of Blogs, The Umbilical Cord, and the Internet…,
Connecting with the godhead, that part of the divine that lives within all, the Imago Dei, coalesces the disparate parts of the soul, mind and brokenness of heart and spirit. Writing or revising and editing this part of a story or novel can and often dispenses healing to the writer whose words later transmit this…
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‘My Name is Khan’, Bollywood, and Writing…
This weekend I saw the movie, “My Name is Khan”. It was a lovely, entertaining and deeply moving experience for both me and my husband. For writers unfamiliar with Bollywood movies, I high recommend beginning to watch them. Though long, they are a wonderful artistic creation to behold. As with any art form, not all…
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Commitment, The Number 8, and Einstein’s Theory of Relativity…
A novel, the first draft of which I wrote 8 years ago, has come together. Wow! It hit me like a ton of bricks. I’m so excited and obsessed with this revision, like with none other. It’s such a wonderful feeling to have something that you’ve been holding, and for such a long time, on…
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Transitions…
Transitions constitute an important part of writing fiction. There are the ones that allow for dips back in time, memories or flashbacks, as we like to call them. And then there are those