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Flash Poem to Self: “Be confident, not sad sap, sipping quietly in corner bar:” On Writing, Cultivation, and Balancing Art/Mind.
Art, Author, Authors, Blogging, Culture, Flash Poem, Flash Poetry, In Another Country: Novel, literary fiction, literary nonfiction, literature, networking, nonfiction, novels, Poem, poet, Poetry, publishing, Review, rough draft, spiritual, spontaneous combustion, success, The Outsider, the writers life, writingartist, author, Book Blog, book blogger, bookblog, confidence, Flash Poem, Flash Poetry, lifestyle, literary, literary agent, literature, meditation, memoir, mental health, mindfulness, muse, Novel, novelist, Poem, poet, Poetry, publishing, rough draft, self love, stream-of-consciousness, success, travel, work in progress, writers life, Writing
I will be confident — not sad sap, sipping quietly in corner bar. I will be, act, speak with intention. I will be finished, will shop my novel.
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The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki between Japan and the United States
Academia, Adventure, anime, Anthropology, Art, asia, asian studies, Author, Authors, Backpacking, Blogging, Book Blog, books, bookstagram, columbia missouri, comparative literature, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, Culture, education, English, essay, writingAdventure, Art, かみ, Backpacking, book review, book reviews, critical theory, culture, folklore, haruki murakami, japan, japanese, jungian, literary, literary agent, literary criticism, literary fiction, literary theory, literature, memoir, murakami, Mythology, nihongo, nippon, travel, Writing, 四回, 文化, 文我高, 日本, 日本語, 村神, 余暇い
Oh, Murakami, you sly fox, you mercurial and fluid, thread a web between East and west that we at once desperately need and can’t quite comprehend. And yet we return, thirsty and increasingly drunk of the elixir that is the product of your craft.
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On the Road Less Traveled : A Personal Essay on the Path of Most Resistance and the Adventure That is Life.
#mondaymotivation, #ThursdayThoughts, #WisdomWednesday, Adventure, Anthropology, Archaeology, Art, Author, Backpacking, Blogging, Culture, featuring, Food, history, Jordan, memoir, Middle East, NaNoWriMo, Poetry, spiritual, tbex, Travel, travel writing, writingAdventure, adventure travel, amwriting, aqaba, archaeologist, Art, author, Backpacking, blog, Blogging, Camel, copywriter, culture, Desert, freelancer, globetrotting, History, inspiration, Jordan, literary travel, literature, Ma’an, memoir, middle east, middleeast, Novel, novel writing, novelist, personal essay, petra, round the world, rtw, tbex, the road less traveled, travel, Travel Blog, travel blogging, travel writer, travel writing, travelblog, Traveling, Wadi Musa, wadi rum, wanderlust, writers life
Don’t be victimized by the culture of fear. Our planet is waiting to be explored, to reveal it’s secrets to you, to me, to any who dare ask, it will expose you to the raw truths of life. To the quarks of distant cultures and alien tongues. To disgusting foods and delicious cuisines, to dangerous…
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Interview with Maria Rochelle
Adventure, Africa, Anthropology, Archaeology, Art, Author, Backpacking, Blogging, City Guide, Culture, Europe, featuring, Food, foodie, Guest Blog, history, Kansas City, memoir, Middle East, Morocco, networking, Travel, writingAdventure, amwriting, artist, author, Backpacking, blogger, Blogging, Confession, confessions, culture, educator, featuring, freelance writing, freelancer, interview, literary, literature, memoir, Morocco, nonfiction, Novel, novelist, publishing, q&a, student life, teacher, teaching, travel, Travel Blog, travel blogger, travel blogging, travel writer, wanderlust, writer, Writing
Get to know Nicholas over this discussion on travel, literature, writing, life, love and losing oneself in the beautiful madness of modern life.
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That Settles it, “Writing is Hard.” -Yeats
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“A line will take us hours maybe, Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought, Our stitching and unstitching have been naught. Better go down upon your marrow bones And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones Like an old pauper, in all kinds of weather— For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to…
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“The Dying of Baal,” A Poem by Helen Wing “…Oh Syria! With the god of Storm and Dew now thunder-mute in Homs, Aleppo, Damascus and Palmyra… ”
Nicholas Andriani Rankin 