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abandonment

March 5, 2006

The Artist’s Way ~ Week 8: Recovering a Sense of Strength

First, a few links: I found this first one (a Yahoo group) because I got a hit from there; someone in the group linked to my very first post on The Artist’s Way: artistswayplay · The Artist’s Way Online Playgroup. Then I found a Flickr group! How could I have missed this? Flickr: The Artist’s… Continue reading

The Artist’s Way

abandonment, The Artist’s Way

DISCLAIMERS:

Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. I believe writing is thinking, and I prefer to do my own. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

Poems

Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

abandonment

The Artist’s Way ~ Week 8: Recovering a Sense of Strength