Kathy Boles-Turner – Three Poems
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Random Shuffle: A Song & A Poem
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Monday night I clicked some random shuffle to life, and a few hours later I had a newborn poem. Love when that happens. Astound me: Reach inside my head to find me. Switch off those old melodies meant to keep me in captivity, fading away with a faded-heart disease…
Disconnected Phrases & Haunting Images: What Fills A Writer’s Notebook
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Throughout the month of February, t.s. wright and I have been enjoying the Southeast Review’s Daily Writer’s Regimen. On Day Twenty-Two, Anne Valente’s Craft Talk, “Constellated Images” was featured. I will now share this with you. ANNE VALENTE “CONSTELLATED IMAGES” In his recent Writers’ Chronicle article,…
Things Are Not What They Seem: A Brief Writing Exercise
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There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot–things are not as they seem. ~ Jim Thompson I love this quote. While I can’t say that there are indeed precisely thirty-two ways to write a story,…
… “when I write I’m merely a sensibility.”- Virginia Woolf
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Reading through Woolf’s A Writer’s Diary, published by her husband, Leonard Woolf, can be likened to trying to put a 10,000 piece 3D puzzle together while blindfolded. And then, just when I’m hopelessly lost, her voice comes through with such intense clarity and insight I am left…
Proof Of Life: Writing About Writing
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“To defend what you’ve written is a sign that you are alive.” ~ William Zinsser Today, I invite all hard laboring writers to defend something you’ve written. No matter if it’s old or new, no matter if it has been published or hides out in the bottom…
Collaboration: Fairy Dust & Hard Labor
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Just as RicoChey is suggesting a mob of us writers collaborate, I begin reading a book about creative collaboration. In Big Magic, Liz Gilbert puts forth her experiences with inspiration — that thing of mysterious quality and substance, like fairy dust — and putting herself to work at the…
Big Magic:Let’s Discuss Creative Living Beyond Fear
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I’ve been a fan of Elizabeth Gilbert’s since listening to her narration of Eat Pray Love in the winter of 2012. Gilbert’s narrative talent is divine on paper; her spoken word is magnificent. That narrative talent is what got me through The Signature of All Things —…
Collaborative Writing Game: You’re It. Go!
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This sounds really fun, y’all. Catch up on the basics, then see my list of ideas below. Here’s the basis of RicoChey’s game: ● A group of participants form a team and swap email addresses. ● Taking turns, each participant writes one page of content (the group…
Mixed Media Inspiration: A Song & A Poem
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https://youtu.be/qSEAguoFE1A ? Listen until something really strikes you. What happens? Do emotions well up into mental images, words, a poetic narrative that surprises? Write and share with us!
Kathy Boles-Turner 