Hi Dan, John, I've fallen in love with prose poems, short little vignettes of image, emotion and ambivalence. I believe my first exposure was reading Fredrico Lorca, so many years ago. I wish I could locate whatever it was that so struck me. Those little word images left a mark on my heart. Technically, I only discovered the genre recently.
I think you both add something so special to this list. You both are intelligent beyond belief, but it is for your story-telling that I desire more. Marsha Sent from my iPad On Nov 29, 2011, at 3:04 AM, Dan Glover <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:39 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi John, >> >> I have intermittently been watching interviews with various screen writers. >> The interviews I've watched have been wonderful. Anyway, Billy Ray, one of >> the screen writers, said he writes with movie scores playing in the >> background. Silence has its place. But how can one resist musical lessons >> on how to to train your dragon. > > Hi Marsha and John > > I generally write with my collection of I-Tunes on repeat playing in > the background. I am pretty much addicted to writing at least a > thousand words a day... every day... been doing so for years now. I > don't do journals though. I stick to fiction, short stories as a rule > though a few of them are growing into novels as the years go by. I > agree there is a meditative aspect to my writing, especially when the > words are really flowing and time stands still. > > Dan > > PS - Say hey to Lu for me! > >> >> >> Marsha >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On Nov 28, 2011, at 10:07 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> >>> Marsha, >>> >>> It's funny you mention the kind of journal you used because that's the kind >>> I've started with as well - the black and white marbled composition book. >>> Lu handed it to me and told me to start writing three pages a day but I >>> wasn't very faithful about it til I actually started reading. Now I'm >>> addicted. I see a strong resemblance to a meditative practice in it. >>> >>> I too, am very glad I started the practice. >>> >>> Take care, >>> >>> John > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
