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Journaling

24-Hour Nonstop Writing – Rules and Regulations

Write nonstop for twenty-four hours? What will emerge? Prior to this endeavor, the longest duration of time for which I’ve sustained focus on a single composition has been around six hours, probably less, and that experience stands out as a transformational one. I am very eager to write for 24 solid hours. This Saturday, Dave [...]

What is Environmental Breath and How Does It Help Creativity?

Click here for more information on Wellness and Writing Retreats in Italy Imagine that it is early morning in late summer and you are standing out on a beach watching the sunrise. The wind is calm and there is only the distant sound of slowly-crashing waves. Such a scene is archetypally serene and tranquil. What [...]

Learning from the environment

I don’t know a single creative writer who doesn’t love to travel. Every creative writer I know benefits from a change of scenery. It’s the creative thing to do. A writer really has two important environments of which to be mindful: the wild nature of the written page their external environment Both of these deserve [...]

Richard Diebenkorn’s Artist Statement

This is one of the most genius statements ever made about modern painting. It applies to writing as well. Your questions concern groups of artists and their changing attitudes, which I take for granted and about which I’m not very interested. What interests me is that a few strong painters are at work, some of [...]

The Kind of Impatience Which Means to Celebrate the Moment

I stopped for a moment and gave some thought to a potential argument that a poet’s life is measured by a certain number of books. Six books. Three books. Twelve books of poetry and one nonfiction book. Not an argument of quality or quantity, but an argument that looks to the book as the thing [...]

Coming to a Feeling of Oneness in Artistic Creation

The world loves to produce. We all love to build things. On Process Creation happens in those instants when you have everything at stake and you risk it all. After creation, something else begins. Something to be regarded, experienced–an object. Something external with its own life and consequences. Maybe there are three steps to creative [...]

Change Something – Guest Post by Joseph Scapellato

LONGHAND—as though referring to a hand of hands, an entity independent of the writer: sleek and lithe, sly, fit with four lengthy fingers and an elegant thumb. Aloof. Not something you’d find beneath a stone. Many of us work with, on, and through computers. We might feel we could go our entire lives without composing [...]

Moleskines manufactured in China – What do you think?

DISCLAIMER: I spend a good amount of my time writing in notebooks. I like a good notebook as much as the next guy, and I’m a fan of Moleskines. They certainly do market their product well. Like most things for sale in the U.S., Moleskines aren’t manufactured in the U.S. Moleskines are manufactured in China. [...]

The Great Journal Page Snapshot Experiment

Di Mezzo Il Mare publishes typewritten poems, short prose, and Italian translations. And. . . Most writers carry a journal, and I am very interested in displaying handwritten work (above and beyond finished typewritten pieces). If you have access to a digital camera or scanner (or smartphone), you can submit to dimezzoilmare.com no matter where [...]

Di Mezzo Il Mare – Post A Snapshot of Your Journal Page

If you’re a writer, you probably carry a journal. Open this journal to an interesting page. Doodles, poetry, story fragments, Jenny’s phone number. Take a snapshot of it or scan in an image of that page. Email it to: submissions AT dimezzoilmare.com This is our new online lit journal experiment.

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