Golden Lines
A found poem inspired by the SIWC 2016
Be actively seeking, even if you're not actively writing.
Art gives us a chance to objectify our lives.
As artists, we have to relearn the world all over again
and see things like we've never seen them before.
When you are writing, don't feel like you have to go to exotic places.
Just live your life as you do, and pay attention.
It's your call as a writer to be aware, to pay attention.
Good writing does not begin with answers, but questions.
Move everything that's in your head into the body. Writing lives in the body.
The more specific you get to a thing, the closer you get to poetry.
I give you my world so you can connect it to yours.
Work and world events have kept me from really processing the indescribable experience of the Sanibel Island Writers Conference (SIWC). I attended so many wonderful workshops, panels, and readings. One of the marks of a truly transformative experience in my opinion, is a journal filled with golden lines, nuggets of wisdom and advice from the various interactions. Tonight I began to mine these bits out of my writer's notebook. Here is the first piece I have created, admittedly out of the words of others. Much of this is from a poetry workshop with Nikole Brown, but there might also be tidbits from Sandra Beasley, Richard Blanco, and Steve Almond... all brilliant writers!
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