Category: creativity
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It’s whimsy, OK? But it’s more than that. We stumbled on Stan Peterson’s work by accident, when a road trip we planned didn’t pan out and we needed a new destination. So. We’re lying on a blanket under a shady tree in Spokane’s Riverfront Park (wonderful, surprising, must-be-visited). We’re bummed because we can’t proceed to…
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Come join me for a fun afternoon of writing practice in two weeks. Like the great music and art masters, we’ll be building muscle memory and training the brain. But this isn’t like practicing scales or mastering vanishing points. This is being surprised, then delighted, by where your creativity carries you. I like using the…
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Oregon author Ken Kesey knew well what practicing novelists learn: Writing a novel, regardless of its quality, is hard. Truth. I’ve written four. The first one found a small regional publisher and came out to positive reviews and modest success. The second one, with the help of a New York agent, circulated the halls of…
