zoned
As I hit the home stretch with this piece, I dare ask a few questions for serious discussion: Should writers take risks with their writing that some may deem innapropriate, including members of the writer’s family and those in his/her social/professional circle? When a writer shows you, the reader, his/her raw side, do you appreciate [...]
writing heals…me
Soon I will post my completed manuscript on how writing heals, but I find the whole experience healing in actually writing the piece. There has been little stress associated with this story, and it has been one of those cathartic experiences that showed me just how “unhealed” I still am about several issues in my [...]
Saturday Photo Scavenger Hunt, no. 2
Grab the Scavenger Hunt code. Photo Theme. Join the blogroll. Visit participants. This week’s theme: Money At the one-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we launched our anthology, September Eleven: Maryland Voices at the state library, and this was given to me by an anonymous reader that day…It conjures up feelings that have long since [...]
quiet blogging days ahead
Hello, Friends… Will be a little quiet here at rus vw as I continue to work on deadline for the healing-through-writing piece. M was up most of the night, and BC got up before sunrise, leaving little time to write in the last 12 hours… I hope to finish tonight/tomorrow a.m., and then I’ll be [...]
Clarity, healing comes through writing
just a quickie, here. I’m working on a piece right now for a new lit journal, and it’s about healing through writing. All my life, I’ve used writing to help me through tough or challenging situations, and even now, during this summer, I am thankful that I have turned to writing to help me get [...]
T13, no. 4
Thirteen Things pulled from Rus’ DAYBOOKS! Ok, folks. These are little original gems that I have pulled from my daybooks (journals) over the past few years…Which is your favorite?1. 25 February 2004, 11:30 p.m.: Thich Nhat Hanh writes in Being Peace, On the wooden board outside of the mediation hall in Zen monastaries, there is [...]
J. K. Rowling on the Writing Process
Last night, J. K. Rowling, Stephen King, and John Irving held a live reading at New York’s Radio City Music Hall to benefit The Haven Foundation (established by King to support disabled, uninsured artists — no web site seems to exist as yet to promote this foundation) and Doctors Without Borders (a group — providing [...]
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