I want to share with you the story of how I re-learned what’s allowed to feed the writing fires. It may be something you’ve experienced, and will inspire you to find out or rediscover what can feed your writing fires. At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another [...]
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Browsing Posts tagged Creativity
Tell me if this is familiar to you. Sometimes I can’t hear what I want to write. I have a story or poem that’s blocked and I have trouble reaching through to pull it out. In these times you may hear no ideas, feel like you have no creativity, but look a little closer. The [...]
Listening to a child tell a fanciful story is like listening to a daydream. Do you ever think about thinking? About daydreaming? What does it do for you really? We All have Choices Either you need a topic, or you need a way to begin writing about the topic you’re given. You stare at the [...]
The above picture is one that I shot from the New Orleans Riverwalk Marketplace. I love traveling. Really. Sometimes, I’ll get to a point when I feel the need to take a trip. A feeling washes over me and I will think It’s time I took a flight out. Without leaving town, I would indulge [...]
Losing the Remote. On a groggy Friday evening, I lost my TV remote. When I lost it this time, the TV input was in DVD mode. I can’t switch input signals from the TV-mounted controls. So I really needed to find it. I looked in the obvious places, first. And when nothing turned up in [...]
The Captured Verse I sit to work and words come sliding at me. I’m at first base, over the base with an over sized catcher’s mitt. Other days, I’m at Pete’s place in Chalmette, Louisiana, with my daddy’s favorite Shakespeare Ugly Stick. They’re out there, but I have to work a little harder to catch [...]
