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Music to Write By
Last week I mentioned that because of my tinnitus I keep instrumental music playing while I do my morning pages and often while I’m working on a writing project. I formed this habit partly as a defense against noise and partly because I had experimented with a technique called Proprioceptive Writing, a method meant to deepen the act…
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A New Year’s Wish for Writers
May we all find in 2016: “the best words in the best order” a horde of readers, all satisfied, challenged or entertained freedom for writers everywhere HAPPY NEW YEAR
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A Writer’s Prayer
Whether you pray to an old man in the sky, a saintly woman in blue, a statue, or a light pole, it won’t hurt to think about praying like this: May I be well enough to get to my writing place; May I be safe from the critics in my head; May I know the…
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“Ink Blot”
One of the many writing groups I attend is a bunch of free-writing fools, as we often call ourselves, though I don’t know that we have ever formally accepted that label. A lot of what we do is happy or not-so happy foolishness, freedom to let the words splatter onto the page and know that…
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A Bowl Full of Socks
Here’s a little gift instead of my usual rattling on about writing. Time to show that I do write stuff. A BOWL FULL OF SOCKS The Bookish Old Woman sits every morning on the edge of my bed. She brews my tea and butters my bread. She’s not me. Surely, she’s not me with…
Karen Douglass, Author 