moritherapy/writing

How writing can be a spiritual experience:

"When read with an open heart, an important text can reveal layers and layers and layers. The heart opens, and then the text opens. "I don't remember ever reading this passage!" is something that I've often heard - from members who have read the book at least 10 times. And as the heart opens and the text opens, the pen opens. With the text as inspiration, words flow out from a place that is deep, honest, lively and life-giving; words of passion: of painful regret, delighted discovery, profound connection, all-embracing love, long-repressed hurt."

From the page: Language has "multiple levels like a tall building with a different floor plan for each story." - An interesting research article about writing with a pen vs. with a computer.

Good essay on haiku and the structure of syllables.

August 2008, Special Issue of Women Writers. Special Issue: Serving The Spirits: Women & Voodoo in Literature and Popular Culture

Confessions of a person who didn't do NaNoWriMo

Yay! I won first prize in this competition about imagining our ideal writing weekend! This blog post features all of the entries, including a wonderfully wacky one that won third price. If you like writing and dreaming, make yourself a cup of hot chocolate and start reading.

"Write, write, write as you must, but cast your words out to the wind careless of whose ears, if any, they trickle into. If the worlds you create with penned lines or keystrokes are populated by imaginary characters, won't they appeal best to pretend audiences?

Conjure the smiles on their faces as they peruse your poetry and prose. Summon up fantastic sums making their way wirelessly into your bank account. Sit back in your tattered chair and feel it transform into a throne well placed in a palatial estate, no longer the cramped apartment of a wannabe writer. Success in the surreal world is never-ending."