imagination
November 24, 2009
- I don't know about you but my characters live and breath, I feel when I'm writing that I'm watching their lives and taking notes of what's happening. I think I'm lucky with regards to the fact that my stories play out like movies in my head. I can pause and picture a three dimensional image in my mind, so I can picture things with great detail. I have always had a great imagination and have been ...
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October 24, 2009
- In relation to the blog below, see the review of MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE in the NYTimes this Sunday. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/books/review/Schillinger-t.html?_r=1&ref=review Another writer who blurred the lines between sleeping and waking, nightmare and reality.Deep down, this kind of writing, raises a profound human question: What is it to be fully awake? and What is it to dream? ...
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October 24, 2009
- Flash fiction, or the short short story, has always had an intimate relationship with surrealism, and literature of the absurd. It is a short, urgent letter that can convey urgent messages, partly through omission. That these slightly tilted, less conventional forms of fiction are returning is evidenced by James Wood's article in The New Yorker about short-short story writer and prose poet, ...
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October 17, 2009
- Diary Cows by Ronald Koertge Got up early, waited for the farmer He hooked us all to the machines as usual. Typical trip to the pasture, typical day grazing and ruminating. About 5:00 back to the machines. What relief! Listened to the radio during dinner. Lights out at 7:00. More tomorrow. (many many thanks and deep bows to Ron Koertge for letting me use this.) ...
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October 8, 2009
- Some like it in amber and some like it red, I like my world in blue, like Farzana, who even likes tree with blue branches. But I feel enveloped in blue today. Plain blue. My mood too is floating in the blue ocean of my imagination. Perhaps, I am infatuated by ‘blumania’. I set my camera to blue tint and kept on clicking and clicking my face, being a transient narcissist. My cornea and ...
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October 7, 2009
- We all need relationships that help us to feel special, safe, and understood. Real-life relationships that foster these feelings in us are the fundamental ground in which we find the courage and hope that we need to create. But what if we do not have such relationships in our life? Is creativity impossible? Karen Walant, PhD, in CREATING THE CAPACITY FOR ATTACHMENT, points out that ...
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October 1, 2009
- Yesterday’s walk brought no clouds, instead a hyacinth blue lake with a slight haze from the fires in the distance. As I saw the trees, I imagined how Van Gogh might have seen them, how the sun penetrated the green leaves just so, and how he had to show their glistening vibrancy; and how he captured the textures of life with thick strokes, so that you can see and so you want to reach out and ...
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September 29, 2009
- My "dragédies" are now available on Amazon.com*.What is a "dragedy" ? You may have heard about "dragees", sweets you offer to somehow exorcise festive events - generally a wedding or a birth... dragedies basically and nonsensically announce death, which means they can be sweet and sour, sad and funny (my definition of humor being the ability to accept death in ...
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September 22, 2009
- Amelia, my four-year-old, has had an imaginary friend named Shabalah since she was one. Don’t get the name? Me neither, and it’s always awkward introducing Shabalah to new people in our lives when they don’t know Amelia for the bright, creative, and perhaps emotionally disturbed child that she is. Shabalah has been with us for so long that when my daughter says something at the grocery ...
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September 15, 2009
- Sometimes I think weird things, and the good news is that I'm a writer and can use them. But it is very likely that I'm a bit of a nutbar, so I can't blame writing for all my nutbarness.For instance, sometimes when I am in a precarious situations, I think about things not crucial to life. This very thought came to me yesterday: Damn, I really wanted to live in my new house.This occurred ...
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