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How to not become a creator

(Photo by Helen Montoya Henrichs.) How to not become a creator 1. Listen to those voices in your head. The ones that tell you you’re not qualified and you’re not good enough and they would all just laugh at you and no one cares what or if ever you create. These voices...

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Ink Well 10.8.14: The art that still lives

Prompt for Oct. 8, 2014 “Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou Soul that art the Eternity of Thought! That giv’st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion! not in vain, By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of Childhood didst Thou intertwine for me...

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Ink Well 10.1.14: Lurching into leaving

Prompt for October 1, 2014 Word: Driving Parameters: Write for 15 minutes without stopping   Lurching into leaving Stop, start, stop, start, we screeched it all the way down the highway. It was not driving so much as lurching. She drove his truck, mustard yellow,...

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Ink Well 9.24.14: Free life

Prompt for Sept. 24, 2014 “Freedom’s a pattern.” -Richard Wilbur   Free life All these chains wrap hands and feet link by link by link and she can name them all A father who left and never came back A need to prove she was worth the coming back An inability o...

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