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the art in the heart: November 2012
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Thursday, November 1, 2012. The art in the heart. Blog has a new home. It is www.heartofmemoir.com/blog. You can also access it. If you're a subscriber, you should have already started receiving posts via email. The new site offers lots about my workshops- the content and upcoming dates. And find out everything about the workshop in Italy,. June 16- 22, 2013, right here. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The Art in the Heart. Enroll in My Narrative Nonfiction Writing Workshops. Enter your email address:. I rec...
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the art in the heart: March 2012
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Monday, March 26, 2012. A Reason for Writing, Writing Workshops, and Making Art. The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself.alone can make good writing. William Faulkner, 1943. Each Sunday, The New York Times Magazine. A pleasantly cheeky publication, contains a department called "Riff," a place for one freelance author's scat, rant, or chest-clearing bombast. In yesterday's paper, Steve Almond. Why Talk Therapy is on the Wane and Writing Workshops are on the Rise. Almond is not saying that ...
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the art in the heart: September 2012
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Monday, September 24, 2012. Displaying the True Self. The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest,. How much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or. Humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't. Live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't. Love enough. Nothing else really counts at all. And there's talk about being honest about who we really are to our readers, about creating a narrator who discards artifice and bluff. Every me...
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Books & Bylines. About & Contact. July 10, 2014. I apologize for four months of missing posts. I began this blog over two years ago primarily as followup support and encouragement for writers who’ve attended my workshops and retreats. And it offered me a continuation of my teaching career (or soapbox) where sharing great writing and ideas about craft were natural. I know for sure I’ll be in Lake Como next fall–September 20–26, 2015–for my next. Italy, in Other Words. July 10, 2014. February 24, 2014.
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the art in the heart: New Blog Address
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Thursday, November 1, 2012. The art in the heart. Blog has a new home. It is www.heartofmemoir.com/blog. You can also access it. If you're a subscriber, you should have already started receiving posts via email. The new site offers lots about my workshops- the content and upcoming dates. And find out everything about the workshop in Italy,. June 16- 22, 2013, right here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Art in the Heart. Enroll in My Narrative Nonfiction Writing Workshops. Enter your email address:.
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the art in the heart: Doubting in Good Company
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Monday, October 1, 2012. Doubting in Good Company. Writing in the first person takes courage. Writers need to express an attitude (tone) that invites a reader into the the writer's world. Neither bravado nor its reverse, acute self-effacement, draws readers. The first person essayist needs to be what could be called a good interviewee- a people pleaser as well as an honest reporter of self. And not a sell-out. That's hard to do. In an article in yesterday's New York Times Magazine. Writing fiction, as Di...
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the art in the heart: August 2012
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012. How to Write Your World. Look closer.document, observe, trace, use, notice, consider everything. How to find a writing project? Connect meaningfully to the world, by becoming an explorer of your. Look closer at what you already know, what you love, who you are. This past week, I found a book recommendation on Maria Popova's truly amazing blog, Brain Pickings. How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum. Monday, August 20, 2012. Embracing Ambiguity in the First Person.
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the art in the heart: The Artist's Fears
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Monday, October 15, 2012. Fears about art making fall into two families:. Fears about yourself and fears about your reception by others. Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking. Is a great go-to book for immediate inspiration. David Bayles and Ted Orland seem to be right on, every time. What are these fears? In many cases it's the fear of failing to create something of significance. We also fear that what we have created is, after all, meaningless. Labels: Art and Fear. Watch ...
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the art in the heart: Embracing Ambiguity in the First Person
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Monday, August 20, 2012. Embracing Ambiguity in the First Person. In nearly every creative nonfiction class I've taught, at least one writer, ironically, struggles to compose in the first person. I'm not talking about those who have been writing about themselves in. The second or third person; I'm referring to those whose memoir writing clearly lacks the sufficient presence of a narrator. I understand the challenge first hand. My editor told me, during the process of writing my first book. His essay imme...
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