Category: creativity
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Last summer, I took a stem cutting from a neighbor’s beautiful climbing white rose, dipped the stem in rooting powder, stuck it in a little soil in a clear plastic takeout container, watered it, put the lid on (key to maintaining the moist environment starts need) and set it in a window. It grew roots…
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Starting a new writing project is like being dropped into a lush landscape with all kinds of amazing plants, animals, people, all of them fascinating and exciting, all jostling in joyous creative cacophony with hidden plots just waiting to be uncovered. It starts off so crowded, I have to get out the machete and start…
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Lately in my social media feed various groups have been promoting the value of copy work, the practice of writing by hand the work of authors that writers admire. The strategy helps us see more deeply into the nuts and bolts of good writing. I tried this with a favorite book, The Night Manager, by…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 