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Showing posts with label writing rhythms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing rhythms. Show all posts
Friday, June 27, 2025

The mysterious rhythm of words

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The mysterious rhythm of words-- how they arrive on the tip of your pen one moment and are gone the next how they flow onto the page on some...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Finding a kind of rhythm

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I find a kind of rhythm,  even if it feels awkward,  writing every morning,  fifteen, twenty, thirty minutes,  sometimes more,  using a foun...
Sunday, August 30, 2020

Riptides and Tidepools

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If you think about writing as a flow—a flow of words, a flow of thoughts and images, a flow of consecutive days that you can sit down and wr...
Sunday, July 15, 2018

A Writer’s Inner Library

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Over the course of a lifetime—from the time as children when a parent or adult begins reading books aloud to us to the time when we can...
Sunday, May 10, 2015

Two steps forward, one step back

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Sometimes writing can feel as if I’m making headway one day, only to find myself retreating the next. Two steps forward, one step bac...
Sunday, September 06, 2009

Riding Waves

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Have you noticed how writing comes in waves? Some days the words flood the page, two- and three-foot high waves that push in from some myste...
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Bruce Black
Chicago, Illinois, United States
A writer, editor, and teacher, Bruce Black earned his MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and now searches for words and stories on Chicago's northern shore, only a few blocks from Lake Michigan. His book for adults, Writing Yoga, was released in 2011, and his stories for children have appeared in Cricket and Cobblestone magazines. You can contact him at wordswimmer@gmail.com.
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