A Web Poet

A beautiful haiku.
We stumble head first
Into another Season
the leaves watch us fall.
--Tyler Knott Gregson  has become well-known on Instagram and Tumblr.

[There is] a new generation of young, digitally astute poets whose loyal online followings have helped catapult them onto the best-seller lists, where poetry books are scarce. These amateur poets are not winning literary awards, and most have never been in a graduate writing workshop.

...their appeal lies in the unpolished flavor of their verses, which often read as if they were ripped from the pages of a diary. Their poems are reaching hundreds of thousands of readers, attracting the attention of literary agents, editors and publishers, and overturning poetry’s longstanding reputation as a lofty art form with limited popular appeal.

--Alexandra Alter, NYT 11Nov15

http://tinyurl.com/WebPoetsSociety

Making Sense

We like fiction because it often gives us the illusion that our world makes sense.

One of the most prominent characteristics of our left brain is its ability to weave stories. This story-teller portion of our left mind is specifically designed to make sense of the world outside of us, based on minimal amounts of information. It takes whatever details it has to work with, and weaves them together in the form of a story. Most impressively, our left brain is brilliant in its ability to make stuff up, and fill in the blanks when there are gaps in its factual data.

I like the above observation, paraphrased from neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor. Her book "My Stroke of Insight," memoir of a stroke she suffered, allows the reader to share in the experience as seen from the inside out by a person who is better qualified than most to examine the workings of her own brain.

Faces...

#tuesdays #faces #stories

 I look into faces, seeking their stories.

What stories do these  FACES  tell you?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZwPB5cm3bs

Beyond Craft

#tuesdays #writing #wordcraft #wordmagic

On writing: "We are talking about tools and carpentry, about words and style...but...you'd do well to remember we are also talking about magic."  --Stephen King

A "Total Re-Looking"

#travel #broad-mindedness

Mark Twain said that travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness... What another good rationale for travel!

Take a quick virtual trip. Travel offers a mental Total Relooking.

Pixar's 22 Rules

#fiction  #novel  #theme

I would like to have the 22 rules printed in color and affixed to a storyboard by my desk. At first glance #3 struck a chord with me. After five drafts of my manuscript, I have stepped back for a few weeks to just consider my story's concepts. No writing allowed. I came across this list of 22 and at first glance, #3 jumps out at me. Yes. It's true that I now understand what my theme is--what the story is actually about. For the next complete rewrite I will write to that theme.

http://mic.com/articles/101740/the-22-rules-to-perfect-storytelling-according-to-pixar?utm_campaign

http://mic.com/articles/101740/the-22-rules-to-perfect-storytelling-according-to-pixar?utm_campaign

And the Plot Thickens...

What an exquisite image! J.K. Rowling plots...

Reality is Perception

#writing #WordNerd

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

--Thoreau

My Best Days

#writing  #inspiration

The days you work are the best days.

--Georgia O'Keefe

Creative Insight

#creativemind  @tracynovinger  #imagination  #imagine-thebook

British writer Rupert Thomson is called prolific. Thomson says the reason he is prolific is because he writes all the time, going to bed late and rising early. He also comments that he always finds that the work he produces an hour or two after waking is more valuable than what he writes at any other time. I like this comment because insight often comes to me in that early morning dawn of the mind between sleep and waking. I think the book “Imagine” explains well the origin of these valuable nuggets our creative mind hands to us.

“To write Fiction at All Is a Moral Act” - www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/jason-holmes/rupert-thomson-interview-_b_5837914.html

19-09-2014

The Creative Mind...

#authorsforum #creativemind #writers  @tracynovinger

The creative mind...

...does amazing things! I was lost in a (brilliant, of course) flash of insight,
and my sunblock sat next to my toothpaste.

Yes. I did.