The Writing Life

Theme Thursday #8: 7/2/09

Posted on July 2, 2009. Filed under: Creativity, Opinion, The Writing Life | Tags: , , , , |

Today’s Theme Thursday is less of a theme and more fun ideas, readings and items you may miss if you don’t scour the Web regularly. I don’t either, but people are starting to send me links and I’m gleefully passing them on.
I like graffiti, particularly if it’s not on my property. I find it inventive [...]

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Traveling Journals: Update 6.12.09

Posted on June 12, 2009. Filed under: Creativity, Journal Pages, Raw Art Journaling, The Writing Life | Tags: , , , |

The Traveling Journals are out being created. The Summer in the Sonoran desert crossed my desk briefly, before it went out again. Here are the latest images in that journal:
There are words written on each of the sun’s sizzling rays:
Here, the word “HOT” holds three experiences about our heat.
The spiral sun talks about the water [...]

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Theme Thursday #5: 6/11/09

Posted on June 11, 2009. Filed under: Creativity, Journal Pages, Links, resources, idea boosts, Raw Art Journaling, Recovering Perfectionists, The Writing Life | Tags: , , , , , , , , |

This weeks theme is pen and notebook reviews, with a bit of thrift store fashion and studio-mixed ink tossed in to make it interesting.
Last week, I introduced Pen Addict. Little did I know he has another blog,
Notebook Addict. In today’s blog he quotes Murderface and his Reciprocral Crap Exchange on Quo Vadis notebooks, which I [...]

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Traveling Journals: Changing the Rules

Posted on June 8, 2009. Filed under: Creativity, Dreams, Journal Pages, Raw Art Journaling, Recovering Perfectionists, The Writing Life, Wabi-Sabi | Tags: , , , , , , , |

When I decided to create four traveling journals, I kept the idea pretty close to the 1000 Journals Project because that was a good model. As the journal entries unfolded, several interesting events took place:
1. Creative Insecurity. The person who started one of the journals has a great deal of art talent. In a class, [...]

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Barter for Business: Getting Started

Posted on June 5, 2009. Filed under: Art/Freelance Biz, Links, resources, idea boosts, The Writing Life | Tags: , , , , |

Whether you are a writer or a chef, times are tough. Writers have it particularly tough because everyone can sit in front of a keyboard and use it. The advantages of using a professional writer—knowing the difference between Googling something and research, finely honed grammar skills, and the ability to move logically through a series [...]

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Why I Don’t Follow You on Twitter

Posted on June 2, 2009. Filed under: Art/Freelance Biz, Creativity, The Writing Life | Tags: , , , |

Twitter is an interesting place. I’ve learned a lot, disagreed with a lot, and still don’t care about the number of followers I have. I’m not so big on being followed as I am in finding interesting people.
Twitter does have some guidelines, and one of them seems to be “follow everyone who follows you.” Open [...]

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The Pencil is Mightier than the Disk

Posted on May 29, 2009. Filed under: Journal Pages, Raw Art Journaling, The Writing Life | Tags: , , , , , , , |

I love pencils. Cheap, available, usable. I have a pencil on my nightstand next to some index cards–in case I wake up and need to remember something but don’t want to turn
on the light. A pencil always works. In the dark, without looking, the pencil will work. Ballpoints and fountain pens, which I also love, [...]

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Creativity in the Shower

Posted on May 27, 2009. Filed under: Creativity, In My Life, The Writing Life | Tags: , , |

Those great ideas, the really best ones, come at you in the shower, don’t they? It’s not surprising. Studies in brain science generally say that creative solutions come about in three steps:
1. Looking at the problem from many angles in open curiosity.
2. Researching information and possible solutions.
3. Putting away the problem by taking a nap [...]

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Journaling With Strangers and Friends

Posted on May 18, 2009. Filed under: Creativity, Journal Pages, Raw Art Journaling, The Writing Life | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

Every artist needs to tackle a big creative project and jump into it without a safety net, at least once in life. My time is now. I’m leaping into a journaling project with no idea where it will go, what will happen, or what the result will be. I have a teeny, tiny need for [...]

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Spelling: Words that Confound Spell-Check

Posted on May 15, 2009. Filed under: Art/Freelance Biz, Recovering Perfectionists, The Writing Life | Tags: , , |

Blogs have spell check, but when you use a word wrong, spell check won’t help you. I was reading the first chapter of a book on someone’s blog today, and I kept stumbling over words that didn’t mean what the writer meant.
“His voice has a pleasant timber.” Unless he’s spitting toothpicks, she meant timbre. Timber [...]

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