Posts Tagged ‘writing’
#7 ARCHITECTURE OF THE INVISIBLE
ARCHITECTURE OF THE INVISIBLE By Mary Rakow, Ph.D. For some years I dated an extraordinary individual, a world-ranked mathematician whose entire life has been, since early childhood, consumed with the pursuit of the invisible. His field is logic, the least applied field in mathematics. But to him and the elite group of colleagues at…
Read MoreGET INSPIRED BY ARCHITECTURE #5 A BENCH IN SEOUL Learning to Stop.
#5 A BENCH IN SEOUL Learning to Stop. By Mary Rakow, Ph.D. A friend sent this photo from a hotel in Seoul where he was staying, knowing I’d love it, and I do! Why? It’s the direction of the bench. That it’s not facing the elevators. The bench has no arms, no back so our…
Read MoreARCHITECTURE AND FOCUS, Part 2
By Mary Rakow Many thanks for the comment posted last month, and for this story by Kasia Ekstrand written to that prompt. 200 word max. Set in the past or future. It was half past two in the night. The ladder was rickety and steep. It had eighty nine rungs and no easy handholds. The…
Read MoreTHE CITY OUR WRITING TEACHER—Fidelity/Place of Refuge
By Mary Rakow There’s a reason why writers, composers, architects and mathematicians wander a lot. When creative people are “in the zone” and we get out, we stop thinking directly about our project. And that’s when we see our teachers everywhere! Bar, beauty parlor, church. This happens because workshops, editors, conferences are all wonderful resources…
Read MoreGo Beyond 5 Senses in Your Fiction Writing
by C. S. Lakin Fiction and nonfiction writers alike need to immerse their readers into the story they are telling, and the best and most obvious way to do this is by utilizing sensory detail. While most of us have been taught that there are five senses, there are actually more than twenty specific senses…
Read MoreFALLING APART/ COMING UNDONE Can Be Step #1 in Making Real Art
by Mary Rakow On Mother’s Day you go with your family to Picasso’s Weeping Women exhibit at Los Angeles County Museum of Art. You’re in your teacher’s private writing workshop and working on fragments for a story about a woman whose child is taken by the babysitter for a quick trip across the border but…
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