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Category: writing workshop notes
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Prompt: Close your eyes. Breathe. Name a fear you have. Breathe again. Now, write about where it lives in your body. 10 minutes, go: My fear is not being understood by the people I love. This fear lives in the dungeon of my throat. It is the murky water at the bottom of a bottomless…
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My phone case is shiny plastic, scarred now from use. It is the color of a cartoon character’s eyes, the mischievous female sidekick with a heart of gold’s eyes, eyes that sparkle and pop out from the screen a bright teal-y blue not found in nature. The edges surrounding the black glass face of the…
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someday I’ll love Elaine Olund (after Ocean Vuong/after Frank O’Hara/after Roger Reeves) Someday I’ll smile every time I bump into myself. Even when that self is a mess, an ooze, tears and unwashed hair undone tasks and hiccups and wrinkles and regrets that smell like Marlboro Lights and malt liquor And I’ll smile even when…
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Sunday Morning: a sketch pillows play on the daybed housecat swishes her tail radio paints music chocolate-dark delicious as my espresso the Swedish horse with the broken leg assesses my mental state the coffee cup outlines the circle of its base onto the table my sandals inscribe lines on my feet, a loose sundress erases…
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Warm up! Write eleven three-line poems about things you see right where you are, right now. Eleven Miniature Poems, March 25, 2017 1 |Roots The cutting in the windowsill vase is shooting out roots but it cannot grow there forever 2 | Fur Cordelia is striped, like a tyger burning bright descendant of some fierce…
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I’m doing a forty-day series of writing prompts to jump-start a novel that I’d let go of working on. I write each prompt in the voice of the character of my story. A lot of it won’t be in the story, but it is a lot of fun and I’m getting to know my character…
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I’m no scientist, but still, I’m fascinated by the process of scientific exploration and discovery. I enjoy reading non-fiction written by scientists, like Michio Kaku, Hannah Holmes, Candace Pert; my favorite column in the New York Times Magazine is “Diagnosis,” where there’s a patient who presents with mysterious symptoms who is puzzled over and prodded…
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