Welcome
readers, writers, authors, and bloggers!
We're
glad you're here! It's the first Wednesday of the month when we celebrate IWSG Day in the form of a
blog hop featuring members and guests of the Insecure Writer's Support Group. Founded by author Alex Cavanaugh (Thank you,
Captain!) and fostered by like-minded associates, IWSG is a comfortable place
to share views and literary news as we record our journeys. Check out the November newsletter here.
The awesome
co-hosts for this month’s posting of the IWSG are: Diedre Knight, Lisa Buie Collard , Kim Lajevardi, and JQ Rose!
Today’s entirely optional question: What creative activity do you engage in when you’re not writing?
If I’m not
writing, I’m thinking about writing. I read a lot, too. And sometimes reading
takes me places that I just have to write about. I like to think I’m perfecting
the art of Literary Excavation for no
Particular Reason. Some folks call that rabbiting. Or, fishing without a
pole…Others refer to what I end up writing as Case Studies, unsolicited as they
may be ;-) I like to think that research, for whatever reason, is a creative
activity. Do you agree? No worries if you don’t. I’m still going to do it anyway
;-) I do it not just for my own edification or enhancement. I do it because it’s
fun – and challenging. For example, here are a couple of poetry exercises I
hope to try by the end of this week (I’ll share later, if I do):
Concrete Poetry: A poem written in
a shape representing what it’s about, such as a poem about rain written to form
the shape of a raindrop with words.
Or,
Erasure Poetry: A poem built from the words
left in an existing document, such as a newspaper article or a page of a novel,
after the poet has blacked out parts of it.
(A friend of mine calls this a Kidnapping Note – ha!)
So, what
creative activity do you get into when you’re not writing? I know we have a few
musicians. Are there any budding Picassos out there?
Can’t wait
to read what you’re up to J
Happy Writing!
