Victoria C. Slotto present her novel at a book fair.
Tonight at 7 p.m. PST, writer, poet and writing coach, Victoria C. Slotto, will host Writer’s Fourth Wednesday on The Bardo Group blog. We hope you’ll join us there. The prompt this month is “Common Sense(s)” and Victoria provides a clear explanation and examples.
Mister Linky will be open for seventy-two hours so that you can link in your own work in response to the prompt. Mister Linky looks like this:
When you click on Mister Linky in Victoria’s post it will ask for your name and for the URL of the post you want to share. Victoria and I will visit and comment. I look forward to seeing you there and reading your post.
The City of Ultimate Bliss
My post for the event is: The City of Ultimate Bliss. Of the four short-story links I’ve attached to this blog (scroll to “Short Stories” in the blog roll), I think that’s the one that most strongly exemplifies the use of the physical senses in story-telling.
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PLEASE JOIN US: Beginning at 7 p.m. PST this evening, we are celebrating Valentine’s Day with love – not the love of and for another person – but our love for our mother planet ….
WE INVITE ALL writers, poets, artists, photographers, musicians and other creatives to join us at The Bardo Group for our Valentine’s Day event, BLOGGERS IN PLANET LOVE. Link in your work that shares your appreciation for the beauty of nature or your concern for environmental issues. You can share the url to your post via Mister Linky, which will stay up for seventy-two hours. Corina Ravenscraft (DragonDreams) hosts. I’ll visit sites and comment. We hope you will also visit others and comment on their work, lending support and encouragement and making connection.
If tonight is date-night for you, remember that you do have seventy-two hours to link your work in. It doesn’t have to be a new or recent piece, just something in the spirit of the event, something that expresses your love of our planet.
See you there. Meanwhile, HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY! 🙂
♥
Photo credit ~ Tropical Rainforest, Fatu Hiva Island, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia by Benutzerseite: Makemake via German language Wikipedia under CC A-SA 3.0 Unported license.
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Tomorrow Writers’ Fourth Wednesday Challenge resumes for 2014 on The Bardo Group. It is hosted by writer, poet and novelist, Victoria C. Slotto. You are all invited to join the fun. The prompt will go up at 7:00 p.m. PST and will stay open for seventy-two hours for you to share your work. Victoria and I will visit and comment. I hope to see you there and hope also you will visit and comment on the work of other participants as well.
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17th Century Mongolian Bronze, photo courtesy of the curator of The Buddha Gallery
2014 IS THE YEAR OF THE HORSE IN CHINESE ASTROLOGY, which promises adventure. (Okay, I made that last bit up, but where is it written we can’t hope?)
I’ve adopted Horse as my guiding spirit. In the ethos of the Chinese people, the spirit of Horse is marked by unrelenting effort. It is characterized by intelligence and ability. The ancient Chinese thought of an able person as Qian Li Ma, a horse that travels a thousand li a day, about 360 miles or 500 meters.
A thousand li according to Lao Tzu writing in theTao Te Ching is the journey that “starts beneath our feet.” We would say the journey begins with a single step. My first step is this: my first post of the year and my current re-reading of Isaac Asimov‘s autobiographies, InMemory Yet Green (1920-1954) and In Joy Still Felt (1954-1978). They present the opportunity to re-experience a time and place I have in common with Mr. Asimov (the ’50s onward) and also to immerse myself in Pulp Era of Science Fiction (magazines, 1920s/30s) and the Golden Age (“Hard SF”- linear, 1950s) and New Wave Age (“Soft” – artistic, literary, experimental, 1960s/70s). One cannot live by poetry alone.These books also provide the chance to observe the skill and absorb the wisdom of one of the finest, most versatile and most prolific of American writers. Some say his life was dull. I don’t agree. Isaac Asimov had many adventures in life but his adventures were of the mind.
“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak”. Epictitus
Another way to express my plan is that this will be a year of listening (reading) more and talking (writing) less. My father – not unlike Epictetus – used to say, “You have two ears and one mouth. That’s God’s way of telling human beings how important listening is.” So this year – my sixth blogging – there will be fewer of my own poems posted here, far fewer posts, and significantly more reviews of books and collections. As Stephen King said:
“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
I’ve posted a small poetry collection on the Home page (My Poetry Sampler).
… and thus the journey continues …
May this be yourbest year yet for intellectual and artistic adventures.
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