Handout & Exercise from the Winter 2018 Writing Workshop
PAPER PEOPLE: HOW WRITERS (AND READERS) CREATE CHARACTERS Jennifer Hodgson “The students I teach, although very able literary critics,...
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Julie Mariouw
- Dec 2, 2017
- 3 min
Handout & Writing Exercise from the Fall 2017 Writing Workshop
WRITING, WATER, & EXPRESSIVENESS (from Reclaiming the Wild Soul : How Earth’s Landscapes Restore Us to Wholeness by Mary Reynolds...
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Julie Mariouw
- Dec 2, 2017
- 3 min
Handout & Writing Exercise from the Nov 11 Gallup Park Workshop
"Following Golden Threads" from Ensouling Language, Stephen Buhner The term golden thread was coined by William Blake (though he called...
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Julie Mariouw
- Aug 13, 2017
- 3 min
Handout & Writing Exercise from the Aug 12 Gallup Park Creative Writing Workshop
THE WRITER'S WORKSHOP "Writing Alone & with Others", Pat Schneider HANDOUT: “We write together—leader as well as participants—in...
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Julie Mariouw
- Jun 5, 2017
- 4 min
Handout & Writing Exercise from Spring 2017 Workshop
Handout from Spring 2017 Writing Workshop WRITING BOOT CAMP from a lecture by Robert Olen Butler In the nearly two decades I’ve been...
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Julie Mariouw
- May 20, 2017
- 2 min
Handout & Writing Exercise from May 20, 2017 Writing Workshop
INSPIRATION: THE BREATH AND THE WORD - (handout) (taken from Writing from the Body by John Lee pp 21-38) The Spanish poet Federico Garcia...
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Julie Mariouw
- Apr 30, 2017
- 2 min
Handout & Exercise from Spring 2017 Workshop
SENSE OF SMELL IN WRITING (handout from April 13, 2017 workshop) "Given the power of smell, you'd think authors would cram their work...
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Julie Mariouw
- Feb 19, 2017
- 1 min
Exercise from Jan 2017 workshop
Opening Lines (link to handout from workshop) Exercise: Part 1: Write down 4-6 opening lines. Don't overthink it; just write what comes...
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Julie Mariouw
- Feb 19, 2017
- 1 min
Exercise from Feb 11, '17 All-Day Workshop
"Sound in Writing"- (link to handout from workshop) Exercise: Think about a particular sound from your childhood; something that means a...
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Julie Mariouw
- Dec 2, 2016
- 1 min
Exercise from Sept 2016 Writing Workshop
BREAKING INTO FICTION (modified from an exercise by Pat Schneider): Part 1 - Write a short, autobiographical, first-person narrative. ...
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Julie Mariouw
- Oct 26, 2016
- 1 min
Today's Inspiration & Writing Prompt
My Dog Practices Geometry by Cathryn Essinger I do not understand the poets who tell me that I should not personify. Every morning the...
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Julie Mariouw
- Sep 30, 2016
- 1 min
Today's Inspiration & Writing Prompt
from HOW TO KEEP AND FEED A MUSE by Ray Bradbury ...When people ask me where I get my ideas, I laugh. How strange--we're so busy looking...
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Julie Mariouw
- Sep 13, 2016
- 1 min
Today's Inspiration & Writing Prompt
"It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out." Khaled...
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Julie Mariouw
- Sep 2, 2016
- 1 min
Today's Inspiration & Writing Prompt
"All grown-ups were once children...but only a few of them remember it." Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince WRITING PROMPT: ...
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Julie Mariouw
- Aug 30, 2016
- 1 min
Today's Inspiration & Writing Prompt
A KIND OF DOTING Muriel Nelson Strange beings we are. Baby facemakers playing the lifetime sport of peek-a-boo. Verify, verify, we say...
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Julie Mariouw
- Aug 26, 2016
- 1 min
Today's Inspiration & Writing Prompt
IN THE CAGE I would like to say good-bye to my rage, snare it and send it for taxidermy. But it sits on my chest, in my chest, pinning me...
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Julie Mariouw
- Aug 22, 2016
- 2 min
Today's Inspiration & Writing Prompt
WISDOM (Excerpts from Reclaiming the Wild Soul, Mary Reynolds Thompson) Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees. Karle...
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Julie Mariouw
- Aug 18, 2016
- 1 min
Today's Inspiration & Writing Prompt
WIND by Ted Hughes This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding...
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Julie Mariouw
- Aug 16, 2016
- 2 min
Today's Inspiration & Writing Prompt
"The Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca once explained that all true art must be produced out of the "energetic instinct" that Spaniards...
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Julie Mariouw
- Aug 15, 2016
- 1 min
Today's Inspiration & Writing Prompt
CAGED BIRD by Maya Angelou A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wing in the...
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