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Monthly Archives: March 2014

Are You Worrying About What’s Happened to Your Creativity?

Sheila Bender's Writing It Real Posted on March 26, 2014 by Sheila BenderMarch 26, 2014

Our creativity is an eternal light. It burns even when we are not paying attention to it. It doesn’t need relighting so much as finding where it lights our path.

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Posted in Instructional Exercises, Sheila Bender On Writing, WIR2014 | Tagged creativity, writing exercises

On the Courage to Create

Sheila Bender's Writing It Real Posted on March 19, 2014 by Sheila BenderMarch 26, 2014

Creativity in one’s thinking and in one’s art is unsettling, both to the artist and to audiences. The courage to create must be born again and again.

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Posted in Sheila Bender On Writing, WIR2014 | Tagged on writing, writing inspiration, writing life

Where Does Creativity Start?

Sheila Bender's Writing It Real Posted on March 12, 2014 by Sheila BenderApril 24, 2014

You may think that being creative requires that you have an idea for a finished product. But an important attribute of creativity is that it produces what it will, not necessarily what you were thinking it ought to. You may think creativity requires completing laborious hours of work. But many people experience creativity seeming to … Continue reading →

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Posted in Instructional Exercises, Sheila Bender On Writing, The Working Writer, WIR2014 | Tagged overcoming writer's block, Trusting Images, writing advice, writing inspiration

The Strangest of Theatres: A Poet Writes Across Borders

Sheila Bender's Writing It Real Posted on March 5, 2014 by Susan RichMarch 18, 2014

Three accomplished writers have as editors acquired a collection of essays in The Strangest of Theatres: Poets Writing Across Borders in which poets explore the way their journeys to foreign lands helped them add to literature’s great conversation. Susan Rich, one editor of the three, whose newest poetry collection Cloud Pharmacy is just out from … Continue reading →

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Posted in From Our Contributors, WIR2014, Writers Building a Community of Readers, Writing Makes a Difference | Tagged personal essay, reading for writing, Writing Poetry

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