May 15, 2012

Hi friends & writers,

I found a neat essay by writer Steve Almond in the New York Times discussing “The Writing Cure” as our culture’s rising therapeutic model. Hope you get some writing done this week and that it makes you feel goooood ….

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PROCESS: MONKEY SEE, MONKEY DO

Inspiration comes from bearing witness to great art and being moved to make our own. Great art could be nature; it could be a well-designed building, a book, a museum, a play, a movie, a dance performance. Bringing new forms of art into the mind strikes sparks – and one of those sparks may keep you burning.

Try this: Seek out a work of art and really look at it as an architect looks at a house – with an eye for how it is built and what it can teach.

FEATURED VENUE: FUTURECYCLE PRESS

In the first quarter of each new year, FutureCycle Press publishes an anthology, both in print and ebook formats, combining poems and flash fiction (defined as fiction under 1000 words). Writing sent now will be considered for the 2013 anthology.

Submission guidelines here: http://www.futurecycle.org/FCFlashSection.aspx

PROMPT

“The story behind this scar…” (8min)