Being bound by the four walls of this house has revealed beauty in what seems mundane and ordinary. What I find increasingly amusing these days are the little moments that usually would pass us by, like the flames dancing on my gas stove during an electrical outage as twilight descends into the night . As […]
via Qaurantined Vignettes A Photo Story #1 — Whilst Sipping Chai
As I continue along on this journey of Throwback Thursday Poetry Edition, I cannot believe how horrible I was to my own writing. I have notes, stickies, comments, and scrawled messages about how much I hate the piece and that I’ll be back to fix it. While the work is clearly not the greatest, it’s […]
I attend several online writing groups now that do nothing but reserve space for writing. One is called Zoom Cafe. Shut Up and Write is a nationwide Meetup organization. Several regional NaNoWriMo groups also offer these types of meetings year round. The first one I attended felt kind of weird. After a few minutes of […]
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via Quick & Easy & Affordable Scrapbooking that is super creative. — aMAZing Creations
A tide of writerly emails swamps my inbox each day. Everyone has advice on how to write and how to write better and how not-to-give-up-when-everyone-hates-your-work and here’s some literary flash fiction. Here’s some atrocious flash fiction from somebody you accidentally followed. Here’s a Ted Talk. Here’s some poetry. Here’s this new author, that new agent. […]
A painter can be identified by the strokes of the brush, choice of colours, subjects, etc. and it all becomes part of their style. The same thing goes for a writer. A writer’s style is based on the choices we make in the text, what we decide to put at the forefront of our […]
When April 1st came along, and I remembered GloPoWriMo, my first thought was, Oh, of course I can’t participate this year. I was in shock from the sudden school closures and the transition to work-from-home, and I was exhausted from two weeks of overwork. Then I realized: this is what poetry is for. If I […]
via Aimless: Writing Poetry in a Pandemic — Cathy Tea’s SimLit Anthology
Creating something, whether it be a sculpted vase or a published novel, is done only by believing in yourself. The you who’s you through and through. Leave ego at the door, pack up a nice buckled suitcase full of clothing and send it on its way. Simply be you and don’t be afraid to express […]
via (How and Why) #writing #poetry #indieauthor #inspiration — blankpagesofmine
Many reading series have gone to ground during the COVID-19 crisis. A few have moved online. Many are hungry for poetry during this difficult time. I’m aware of the following ones. If you know of others, please fill out my contact form or comment below.
via May 2020 Online Poetry Readings Based in Massachusetts — Garden of Words
1st May 2020 News to catch up on from the first day of May. What’s been happening? Much of the same, sadly. But, we have now apparently passed the peak and deaths should now be on the decline. Let’s hope so. In the last few days Natasha and I have kept up with our keep […]
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