Do you read what artists in other disciplines are writing about?
I am always surprised by how helpful blogs and books about photography or visual arts or theater (or any art form) can be for my own writing or movement creativity.
“Think like a painter. Think like a musician. Think like a surgeon. Don’t think, just write.” Lisa Moore (Prism International, 2009)
I’ve been receiving ideas, advice, inspiration and encouragement from artist Robert Genn’s always entertaining twice-weekly newsletters for years. His recent passing will be a great loss to those who enjoyed his writings, paintings and teaching.
His daughter Sara, also a visual artist, is picking up the torch and continuing her father’s newsletter tradition. In last week’s newsletter she celebrated her father with a moving and inspiring tribute.
Robert Genn was a master of pithy quotations. One in particular that Sara shared, snagged my attention: Continue reading
I’m so delighted to have my flâneur poem “Montreal – In Passing” included in the new issue of 
This year the 
“Have it taken with a cat,” advises a friend. “Everyone likes spending time with a person who has a cat.”
It is a dark and desolate night. The wind howls. The streets gleam, sheet ice. Not a soul in sight.
It takes a pick-axe to break up the 18 inch sheet of ice over the path and the steps (thank you, thank you, dear neighbors!) but the electricity is on again after five days. Even though we’ve no water because a pipe burst the night the temperature went down to -30, we can now supplement the wood stove with the electrical heaters – and I can use my laptop. Time to write.
You’d think that celebrated award-winning children’s author 
I have so many stories waiting to be finished. Every time one pops into my mind, I drop the story I’m working on and veer off and go search among my folders, then find yet another one that I’d forgotten about but which really should be completed. It’s so easy to be distracted.
Susi Lovell 