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To be or not to be
Posted on October 23, 2015 4 Comments
To be or not to be. Arguably the most well known phrase in the English language. Benedict Cumberbatch took his turn playing the lead in Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the National Theater in London. Watching it streamed in a buttery-smelling movie theater in Omaha NE doesn’t have quite the same feel. But the production was phenomenal, nonetheless. I […]
Bringing life to a cactus
Posted on September 3, 2015 Leave a Comment
One thing you should know about writer’s is that they’re great at playing with words. They can make you read an entire story about the most disgusting thing. Or something drearily boring. But with the right adjectives, a writer can make anything sound beautiful. There’s a quote I just love from British author Enid Bagnold: […]
Crawling
Posted on September 1, 2015 Leave a Comment
I feel them crawling up the walls their small lurking bodies blacker than the darkness and I feel them crawling up each vertebrae of my spine their small feet leaving a path of stings and tingles and I feel them crawling around on my hands and feet and the back of my head, crawling, dancing and I […]
The way a writer sees the world
Posted on November 9, 2014 Leave a Comment
They way a writer sees the world is different from the way other people see the world. We see drama and think about how we can turn it into a story. We are willing, sometimes eager, to put ourselves in stupid situations. Maybe we’ll get a story out of it. We’re able to slip into […]
Creative writing….on Twitter
Posted on September 29, 2014 Leave a Comment
Social media finally infiltrated itself into our lives. We can’t be alone without feeling the need to look at a smartphone. Quality time with friends always includes media: Instagram selfies, Facebook check-ins, and lots of hashtagging. I will text people sitting in the room as me. It’s becoming an epidemic! Soon, the entire world will be […]
Beautiful Words
Posted on July 16, 2014 Leave a Comment
Cellar door: [English compound noun] has often been used as an example of a word or phrase which is beautiful in terms of phonaesthetics (google definitions). I can kind of see why this is often considered the most beautiful combination of words. Cellar door. There is something so smooth and clean about it. It almost […]
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