Monthly Archives: August 2008

So who do you think you are writing every day in the month of August? Where does this urge come from? You will come up with many answers. Consider this one: We are turning around to speak to our old … Continue reading →

What is your essential anchor or orientation? The thing you come back to to know who you are? Stay with concrete nouns: Bing cherries, ocean, thin lips. These anchors are your language, the way you reel yourself back in with … Continue reading →

What aches? First tell the concrete aches: your back, knee, toe, ear, wrist, head. How about stomach aches? When do you get them? Now move to the other, less obvious injuries: heartache. Then how trees ache and trucks, how history, … Continue reading →

Reveal a secret about yourself, no need to justify or defend yourself… dig for something that feels like a risk to share.

This may sound cliche but see if you can take it some place real..write about your first kiss (all the details…pleasant, uncomfortable or otherwise that you can remember) go….. Or write a breakup conversation or a kiss-off. Make it juicy … Continue reading →

You are now working at an aquariam/ a fastfood restaurant/ a sewage treatment center/a lingerie department… tell us about your daily activities, frustrations, triumphs, or write an angry letter to your boss detailing the reasons for your resignation.

Write a feminist dig or diss; rip on something unjust, say something you’ve never dared to say but always wished you could, or praise some true feminist heroism!

Write something truly absurd; write from the perspective of an estranged or deranged mountain goat, go on a drug trip and wander through south dakota, go to a dinner party with drag queens at an upscale restaurant in New York, … Continue reading →