Part 4, final in the series

Thoughts after coming back from a first big step toward a dream
- a writer's group.
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FEAR of HAPPINESS, the Series:

Part 1-
An invitation from a successful   more...writer (writes for a living) to join a writer's group brings to the surface a fear of...success? failure..? Not sure...

Part 2-
I go looking for some answers in the self-help section of the books store

Part 3-
Before the first meeting of the writer's group, I ask myself what I want from it

Part 4-
Reflections after having returned from the first meeting.
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This guy improvises a way of towing cars that will make everyone just THAT much more careful where they park!

A response to Syd aka LVbianSynic, this is what I use to do when I had something bothering me, its been a long time coming thank you for reminding me, this is very therapeutic for me, I simply write my   more...problems, toubles, worries down on paper, light them on fire, watch them burn and then let them blow away in the wind.  less

This interview was a while ago, but they never sent me the reel, so I just recorded it and posted it.

a NEW type of competition

Every other Sunday, we will add a new writing challenge for writers and non-writers alike to participate in!
Have fun!

Hey Everyone! please read all the description

I thought this may be a fun idea that everyone can be involved in! basically i want you guys to come up with recipies for the DREAM coffee! please be creative   more...and on thursday/friday of next week i will select 3 submissions and on the friday i will personally make the Coffee's and taste them myself in an all new tasting session video! i know i can count on you guys to be creative!

Leave your Recipe ideas in a comment on this video or jus send me a message, whatever is easier for you =D

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Poem I wrote that I read to you, very fast. Tell me what you think! I'm still experiementing and have limited editing software, but I'm tryin!!!

designing the quilt, to think or not to think?

Thinking out loud as I quilt, responding to a comment about the importance of creative process

Superman runs amok. Stitching, laying out, cutting

maddog backwards spells?

April can be frustrating....

tell me what you think

Check Out the "creative" way these critters find something they want - and get it!!!

A portion from a workshop given by Mills College in 2001 on Non-Fiction Creative Writing

some of my drawings from over the years

Just a video to point out that we don't all have to agree to have valid points and different ways of looking at things. (Syd)

A response to the LiveVideo Writing Challenge #3 - "Photo Prose", posted by Dugalwest.

~<b>Spin Those Wheels ~

Kenny always had this thing for wheels. Turning wheels.

I could be working   more...on my car for hours and never see his face. Which was good. I didn’t want him getting hit by a flying wrench, or kicked as I lay across the fender, head buried under the hood trying to tighten that last bolt.

But change a tire or work on the brakes? He was right there, hand pressed flat against the sidewall, trying to spin it. That would have been the ’56 Buick with the big white sidewalls.

I can still see him kneeling on the driver’s seat, leaning on the horn ring while trying to turn that big ass steering wheel. Nighttime was his favorite time to ride in that car, because it was quiet out, and he could hear the sound of the tires on the road as we drove with the windows open.

I can still remember one of the first times he borrowed my car, right after he got his license. Later in the day, I found the jack loose in the trunk. When I asked him about it, he said he had to change a tire because it was low on air. I guess he was too embarrassed to tell me about it, because when he got home and checked it with an air gauge, it was fine. I think he just wanted to spin the wheels.

When school didn’t work out for him, I told him, “Either you go to school, or get a job and start paying your own bills.” So he started working on the loading dock with me. He was a good worker, but he was always watching the trucks coming into the dock and talking with the drivers about rolling down the road.

The next thing I knew, he’d talked the boss into letting him go out with the drivers, because that’s what he wanted to do – learn to drive a semi. I heard him joking with a friend, once, about how it was appropriate that he was reading Heinlein’s “The Roads Must Roll”. I never could figure that out. What did moving roads have to do with wheels turning? But that was him and his science fiction. I reminded him that the story sounded anti-union, anyway.

So, driving and wheels turning are what got him to stick out the job and stay in the union. He’s been driving all this time, and now he just retired. We went through some old family pictures for the retirement party, and I found this one. It was Christmas, and he was three years old. The first thing he did when he picked up that bus was to spin those wheels.
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The day my hands sell out.

Challenge #1
"Fairy Tales & Bombs"

Create a very short piece of fiction
with the following elements in it:

Setting; A bomb shelter
Characters from a well-known fairy tale
and YOU

Sometimes Jen and Mary ask me to write for them. Here's a little glimpse into that process.

People get more and more creative by the day.

This is the painting phase of it's creation.