Category: Authors
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The truth behind stories, heroines journey, and the war of art: a 1-month plan to pursuing the Artists Journey
The Artist’s Journey is a profound odyssey of self-discovery and creative growth. It’s a path where storytelling, narrative design, and your chosen creative medium converge to shape a unique voice that yearns to be heard. Over the course of this one-month plan, you’ll embark on daily adventures into the realms of your imagination, explore diverse…
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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.
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in 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, writingI 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
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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That Settles it, “Writing is Hard.” -Yeats
“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
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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… ”