PRACTICE – Dirty Dog and Retro Wallpaper

Doodling the Dirty Dog, pen and ink on graph paper, doodle © 2007 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.

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2 Reasons D.H. Lawrence & Fran Lebowitz Write

“I like to write when I feel spiteful; it’s like having a good sneeze.”
–D. H. Lawrence
“Screenwriting is not an art form, it is a punishment from God.”
–Fran Lebowitz

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25 Reasons I Write

1. I don’t know why I write but I’ve built my whole life around it.
2. I write to keep myself alive. I can’t not write.
3. I write because I have something to say, a story to tell.
4. I write because if I don’t it feels like a million cactus pricks are sticking it to my insides.
5. I write to give [...]

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Buried Treasure

Black Beatles box, wax masters
“Listen, do you want to know
a secret?” 
Listen.
Fat, fur-covered lynx tail
in a white Muriel cigar box,
1950’s retro.
Sting of the Lady Remington,
my grandmother used to take her time
shaving silky legs. Skinny. Electric.
Tucked in a bedroom drawer.
Great Gray flew away
home, February 8th,
two years ago. I cried.
4th Step shifts, 5th Step blunders.
Your soft blue [...]

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25 Reasons I Write

I write to be able to say something
I write to have the voice I didn’t used to have
I write instead of shouting, but sometimes I also shout
I write to do
I write to be
I write to live with others, to be with them and not just sit around talking about the stupid teacher at my kid’s [...]

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WRITING TOPIC – 25 REASONS I WRITE

Countdown to Taos. Keeping it simple, short, sweet.
List 25 reasons you write. They don’t have to all be serious. Give yourself room to explore. Surface or deep, snorkel or scuba, dive in.
Walk in the mist – get wet.

-posted on red Ravine, January, 26th, 2007

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PRACTICE – Essay – Breaking Through – 30min

I finally broke through. Out of all that anxiety, fear, whatever you want to call it. It was after Liz and I went to see Jean Shinoda Bolen, the Jungian psychologist, writer, feminist, at Amazon Bookstore last Friday. After that evening, everything cracked open.
It wasn’t so much what she said – as what she reminded [...]

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PRACTICE — Essay – Dreaming – 15min

I am in la la land this morning. I had such a hard time getting up. The darkness wanted to hold me. I’ve been in hibernate mode. A few weeks now. Maybe since Christmas. The days are short. The nights long.
When I think of writing an essay, I draw a blank. I scare myself. What [...]

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PRACTICE: Orale, Vato, Ese Dude

Ese, vato, pen and ink on graph paper, doodle © 2007 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.

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PRACTICE: Essay – 20min

I was making a second cup of Earl Gray tea, waiting for the water to boil. Thinking about my essay. How I feel stuck. How yesterday I thought it might help to go back to the compilation of Best American Essays from 2005. How that only served to make me feel like there’s no way [...]

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FYI on My Father’s Suitcase

One of the members from our intensive sent out a note this morning about “My Father’s Suitcase” by Orhan Pamuk, who won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. Out of curiosity (since I didn’t know what My Father’s Suitcase was), I did a Google search. The first item that came up was this link.
It’s [...]

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RE: 10 Things I Hate to Love

I don’t hate
unless I’m in a hating mood
In high school the girls used to say, Eeeeee, you’re so hateful!
I hate to lie but I lie more than I hate
Tonight I went to see Children of Men and told my husband I watched Dreamgirls instead
He wanted to see Children of Men, which I knew but in [...]

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PRACTICE – Going to the Chapel

Going to the capila y nos estamos a casar…Saint You Shoulda Known Better…Saint I’m Not the Kind of Saint to Tell You ‘No’…Saint I Love You No Matter…

Saint You Shoulda Known Better, pen and ink on graph paper, doodle ©
2007 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.

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10 Things I Hate to Love

1. The latest episode of The Office
2. Drowning in Lay’s potato chips
3. Popcorn between my teeth
4. Knuckles numb with January cold
5. The smell of Kiki’s breath in the morning
6. Coca Cola Zero
7. Ugly Betty’s braces
8. Dancing Christmas cat garland
9. Desktop video clips of HGTV’s Dream Home
10.Voice of Jim Bakus in 1962’s Mister McGoo’s Christmas Carol [...]

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