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Fri 16 Nov 2018

Age

Posted by PJ under aging, art, quote of the day, youth
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Random quote of the day:

“Youth has no age.”

—Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso: What He Said by Narim Bender

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Thu 16 Aug 2018

Someday

Posted by PJ under art, procrastination, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“Tonight some people were talking about a book they were going to write someday. There’s no book you are going to write. There is no someday.”

—Anne Lamott, Twitterfeed, June 23, 2013

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Fri 3 Aug 2018

F-f-f-f-fashion

Posted by PJ under art, fashion, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.”

—Jean Cocteau, quoted in Threads: My Life Behind the Seams in the High-Stakes World of Fashion by Joseph Abboud

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Tue 17 Jul 2018

Let down the bucket

Posted by PJ under art, conscious and subconscious, creativity
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Random quote of the day:

“In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences, and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.”

—E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy

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Wed 20 Jun 2018

Creative mystery

Posted by PJ under art, creativity, mysteries, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“It has baffled most people who’ve tried to analyze just what takes place in the creative process. Even Freud, who gave up on almost nothing, seemed to have given up on that. It remains mysterious; and it’s probably a good thing that it does. It may be that the mystery is among the things that attract those of us who write.”

—John Hersey, The Paris Review, Summer-Fall 1986, No. 100

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Mon 7 May 2018

Craftsman

Posted by PJ under art, books, craft, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.”

—Jean de La Bruyère, Characters

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Wed 28 Mar 2018

Eccentric!

Posted by PJ under art, eccentricity, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Great art is the result of eccentric, individual passions, not test screenings, market research, and crowd sourcing.”

—Sherman Alexie, Twitterfeed, 1/26/12

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Wed 7 Mar 2018

Avoid cliché like the plague

Posted by PJ under art, cliches, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“The cliché always flourishes in the creative arts because the familiar gives a sense of comfort and security.”

—Roy Huggins, “The Ten-Point Guide to Happiness While Writing or Directing a Maverick”

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Wed 14 Feb 2018

Behind the eyes

Posted by PJ under art, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“Somewhere in the blood you have a play, and you wait until it passes behind the eyes.”

—Arthur Miller, The Paris Review, Issue 152, Fall 1999

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Thu 8 Feb 2018

I’m going to try something here

Posted by PJ under art, cinquain, haiku, nature, poetry, poetry project, tanka
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The Barber stuffed chicken breast box.
I’ve been struggling to come back online as an artist. I’ve been doing a found-paper box-folding project since June 1, 2017: one box a day for a year, little things, until May 31, 2018. Then I shall assemble them into something. Not quite sure what yet, although I have ideas.

But the writing…fits and starts, can’t keep going on anything, things bubbling below the surface, but they won’t come out. I need to write. I long for it so hard, so deep. I think I need to force my own hand, so I’m going to try doing little things with that, too. I remember a writing teacher many long yarns ago who made us do five weeks (out of 20) of nothing but haiku, tanka, and cinquains before he’d let us do any other kind of writing. We chafed at that, some dropped the class, but for those of us who stuck with it this discipline turned into an amazingly freeing exercise. So…

Haiku
Poems of 3 lines and 17 syllables:
Line 1, 5 syllables
Line 2, 7 syllables
Line 3, 5 syllables

Tanka
Poems of 5 lines, 31 syllables:
Line 1, 5 syllables
Line 2, 7 syllables
Line 3, 5 syllables
Line 4, 7 syllables
Line 4, 7 syllables

Cinquain
An American form in imitation of the Japanese forms above. (Some cheat and title these poems, allowing themselves an extra line.)
Poems of 5 lines with iambic accents:
Line 1, 1 accent
Line 2, 2 accents
Line 3, 3 accents
Line 4, 4 accents
Line 5, 1 accent

Can I keep up the discipline? What discipline should I set myself? One a day? One a week?

I’ll try one a day, but that may be ambitious. One a week seems too little. So maybe I’ll compromise. I have to do at least 3 a week. If I do more, that’s great, but at least those three. So, here we go.

Edited to add: I started this on a Thursday, so my week runs Thursday to Thursday.

Day One – Tanka (with a thanks to mountoregano and a side thanks to Billy Collins)

The daffodils hold,
their green ranks standing silent.
The peach tree, chafing
with impatience, holds forth in
full spring, laughing pink blossoms.

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