Category: writing
How do you know you’re a writer? If you wrote today, you’re a writer.
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Creative, I mean. Even if you think you aren’t. I love this book of poetry prompts by poet Joseph Fasano. In my book club, (OK, truthfully, my mother and two sisters meeting weekly on Zoom; we talk books to maintain fresh discussion points), we enjoy using the prompts in Fasano’s book to write. His prompts…
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In yesterday’s blog I mentioned E.M. Forster’s book “Aspects of the Novel.” An early 20th-century novelist, Forster’s book on writing has been on my desk for a couple of decades. It is taken from a series of lectures he gave on the subject and has a fine spoken feel, in addition to being true, and…
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Don’t know if it’s the February sky — low and drizzly — but Bob Dylan’s “Oh Mercy” (1989) and “Love and Theft” (2001) drew me in recently. I’m struck by how precise and yet how loosey- goosey Dylan’s lyrics feel. “What Good am I?” from “Oh Mercy” captures in such simple language and tones how…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 