How was your week? Did you try reading like a writer? Though I didn’t find a lot to apply to my novel from The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill, I did have fun brainstorming unique formats for my novel, and it inspired me to get a copy of S. by J.J. Abrams andContinue reading “The Week in Review: Reading, Writing, and Abstraction”
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Reading Like a Writer Attempt 3: The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
Procedural Tips Since The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill was so different than the others I’ve looked at so far, I had to come up with another color code for my post-its and notes. I marked the beginning of each of the letters with orange, thinking that on second read it would beContinue reading “Reading Like a Writer Attempt 3: The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill”
Dialectic Thinking and the Study of Contradictory Abstractions
Last week, while thinking about the first of my new calls to action “To find the truth in deceit and the deceit in truth; either deceive the truth, or unveil the deceit” (I now think reveal works better than unveil), the idea of deceiving truth, along with the blues songs I’ve been studying, got meContinue reading “Dialectic Thinking and the Study of Contradictory Abstractions”
The Week in Review: Reading, Writing, and Abstraction
How was your week? Did you try reading like a writer? I really enjoyed applying the things I learned from The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny to my short story. This week I’ll be talking about The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill. I’m enjoying my coursera.org course “The Modern and the Postmodern”Continue reading “The Week in Review: Reading, Writing, and Abstraction”
Reading Like a Writer Attempt 2: The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny
Procedural Tips This week I focused on marking while reading the first time. This focused my intention on reading like a writer, and I could tell I read differently. One quick and easy thing I can do is look at the page count divide that by two and mark the mid-point. Then divide that inContinue reading “Reading Like a Writer Attempt 2: The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny”
Juxtaposing Last Year’s Lines
After We Said Goodnight We have said goodnight butbuckle up and hold on as hearts buckle The rope hangs from the reaching branchHead held high, enjoying the sun on my shoulders,I begin my journey At my magical realism hotel wherethe air is thick with itagitation nags, it’s tickling The fan whirs in the windowIn theContinue reading “Juxtaposing Last Year’s Lines”
Reading Like a Writer Attempt 1: The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry
Procedural Tips After reading The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry to the end, I filled out the questions I could by memory. The first exercise where I hunted for examples from the book was looking at how each chapter ended. I found this a useful exercise and a good way to start reviewing theContinue reading “Reading Like a Writer Attempt 1: The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry”
Dream Imagery
The poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub is to “write a poem inspired by a vision, dream, or both.” I tried to do the spoon in the bowl trick to induce a dream state, but all I saw was a big orange square of color with a read shadow moving around, so I decided toContinue reading “Dream Imagery”
Expanding the Study of Contradictory Abstractions
Not Just Nouns Anymore While reading The Linchpin Writer by John Matthew Fox, I came across this interesting sentence: “You should use your descriptions to do one of two things: to either defamiliarize the familiar, or to familiarize the unfamiliar. “ The form of that sentence, with its contradictions, reminded me of “find the despairContinue reading “Expanding the Study of Contradictory Abstractions”
The Warm-up Week: Creating New Systems
How was your first week of the year? Mine was busy and fun. I love how writing down what I want to do, here at Experience Writing, motivates me to do it. With all of the new things I’m trying, I have to remind myself that I’m just getting started. I need to be patientContinue reading “The Warm-up Week: Creating New Systems”
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