Tag: writing
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Intimate Acts of Writers: Sharing Naked Creativity
The Intimate Acts of Sharing Creativity Over the past month, I have committed intimate acts I had only dreamed possible as a writer. Do you remember sharing your first venture into creativity? What that was like? Who shared it with you? Their response to you? Often the first venture into the intimacy of creativity happens…
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Art as an Act of Faith
Art, I am discovering, is the ultimate act of faith. Do you see this photo of the path through the woods? I cannot see where this path ends. As with Life, I can see only a few steps ahead. In places where the path is straighter, I can see farther, but what’s around that next…
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How National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) Is Like a Diet
My NaNoWriMo project–one that was loosely plotted ten years ago in NYC after a writer’s conference when I was on a roll. In fact, I loosely plotted a whole series with the same characters. Life has intruded, and many other books have been written meanwhile, but it’s time to jump back into the fun of…
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Why Let Your Last Boyfriend Choose Your Next One?
Speaking of past boyfriends, these are little “swamp things” growing out of the muck in a rather lovely lake near my home. Photo copyright by Lorna Tedder, all rights reserved. From the upcoming book,23 Ways I Screwed Up My Life with the Law of Attraction—and How I Fixed It You wouldn’t let your last boyfriend–the…