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Take Notes
There are so many reasons to write! You don’t have to write professionally to experience the many benefits writing can offer you. Remember, while few people write professionally, everyone writes,...
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Watch Your Process
Do this one thing and your creative life will be transformed. Watch your process. One of the assignments I often give my workshop participants on location is to watch your process and take notes....
View ArticleKurt Vonnegut’s 6 Storylines
Writer Kurt Vonnegut demonstrates 3 of his 6 simple shapes of stories. View more creativity videos here. Read more about Visual Storytelling here. Learn more in my digital printing and digital...
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How To Use Words Improve Your Creativity
Use Your Words Watch Your Process It’ll change your life. Take Notes See, remember, and produce more. Talk With Yourself Don’t worry, it’s not crazy. We all do it. Listen To Yourself The words...
View ArticleSarah Kay On The Power Of Spoken Words
. “If I should have a daughter, instead of Mom, she’s gonna call me Point B … ” began spoken word poet Sarah Kay, in a talk that inspired two standing ovations at TED2011. She tells the story of her...
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How I Title My Images
Illumination I, 2000 Titles have always been challenging for me. While I always use a working title for a developing series, often, I don’t know what to title the works until I truly understand...
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How To Title Your Images
Neko Harbor, Antarctica, 2007 Watch how the focus shifts when these alternate titles are used. Freezing Point, Glacial Retreat, Blue, Constellation When in doubt, when selecting titles for your...
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Coach Yourself
A voice inside my head was grousing, “There’s nothing here. It’s not good enough. You’re not good enough. Someone else has done this before. You’ve done this before. You’re uncomfortable. You’ll have...
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Three Ways To Tell A Story More Creatively – It, I, You
Using words can help you find new perspectives that can be translated into images. How? Tell a story, from at least three different points of view – it, I, and you. – First, tell the story in the...
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Join Me For A New Poetry Reading – Ecopoetry / Voices For The Future
Sunday, April 10, 2022 – 4-5:30 pm EST I will be cohosting (with Meg Weston) this event and reading my poetry with fellow Maine poets Kathleen Ellis, Gary Lawless, Iris LeCates, and Meghan Sterling in...
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Find Out How The Great Pause Gave Me The Gift Of Poetry In Lux Magazine
. LUX is Maine Media Workshops’ new magazine and I’m featured in the first issue. Find out how the pandemic’s great pause gave me the gift of poetry and how I started that journey into words in a...
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Enjoy FRAMES Magazine’s Feature Of My Photographs & Writing About Antarctica
FRAMES magazine’s issue 7 features a selection of my photographs of Antarctica accompanied by my haibun (a Japanese writing form combining prose and haiku). The synergy between the words and pictures...
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Enjoy The Ekphrastic Review’s Writing Challenge With My Antarctic Images
Deadline – April 15 . Ekphrastic writing is written in response to works of art. The Ekphrastic Review is offering its current writing challenge based on my images. The responses are certain to be...
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State The Nature Of The Influence On You Simply – One Word, Phrase, Sentence
Complexity Intuited Order Eliot Porter saw a more complex geometry in nature. All types of artists look closely at their influences; particularly as they’re finding their own voice, or at key stages...
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Making The Most Of Challenging Times By Living The Creative Life
Recently I had a wide-ranging conversation with Richard Bernabe for his Beyond The Lens podcast. I shared stories about being raised in a family of artists and how making art has helped me deepen my...
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How To Strike Up A Lively Conversation With Your Images
Decades ago, my friend Jeff Schewe asked me, “We both know how to do a lot of things to our images but how do you decide what to do to your images?” My response surprised him, “Talk with them.” Let me...
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Photography & Words – On Better Photography With Peter Eastway
“Have you noticed how all photographers have favourite stories that tell of being in a certain place at a certain time and making a photograph that really excited them? People love to hear these...
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