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news writing

The Frame Ends and the World Begins

Hello! I took a bit of time off work to do Evernost rewrite/revision, and while I wasn’t as productive as I’d hoped to be, I at least hit a major milestone. And I came up with an experimental strategy for revising: turning the prose into poetry and back again. In theory, it will help me […]

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quotations writing

Skywatch

It’s like living in a clam, the sky is mother-of-pearl, bubbled rainbow relief, dizzy blue depthless depth of metaphor. The sky is light. My father once said that, since I was a writer and all, that he wanted to hear how I would describe a strange and glorious sky. Typically, I could think of nothing […]

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writing

Sunrise

I am quite enjoying the bare beginnings of spring here and planning away on Evernost. Meanwhile, today I thought I’d share another writing exercise from my writing group!  The prompt here was something along the lines of the following: “You wake up in a maze of walls covered in leafy vines with a sign reading, […]

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writing

The Bounds of Reason

Today I thought I’d share the results of a writing exercise I did with one of my writing groups. I forget the exact prompt, but it was something about having to disarm a bomb while tied up. In my group, we spend 30-40 minutes on these and share the results with each other. It’s interesting […]