When I Write I find Elbow Room for my Soul
I enjoy creating poetry that is both memoir and composite images of experience enjoyed, considered, maybe fictionalized. Hope you find reading my creations rewarding.
In addition to attending to all things family, I love learning this new technology and how to write poetry.
contact: jpenstroke@yahoo.com
Notes from PenStrokes about Free Writing posted at Advice to Writers http://www.advicetowriters.com/
My Writing Practice
My practice is simple. Light a candle, accompanied by some baroque music, listen to what I am thinking/feeling and write each word I hear.
Free writing to me is about putting down what comes up, not thinking up something to put down. A daily necessity.
Thanks to all my teachers like Peter Elbow and his writings, Pat Schneider and her Amherst Writers and Artists, and Linda Trichter Metcalf and Tobin Simon for giving me Proprioceptive Writing as a doorway into my own body of work.
Time to pull out a page and write for twnety minutes. Hope you will join me and enjoy the delicious sense of your authentic voice flowing smoothly.
When I write I find elbow room for my soul, what do you find?
someone just sent me something from tai kawn doe that said that the elbow is the strongest bone in the body.
How fascinating! I think I heard that once years ago but did not think of it when I created this lead for my own writing thought. I studie Qigonog once but never tawi kawn doe.
I hope that it is alright, I am adding you to my blogroll. Please let me know if you would like it removed.
I smile – of course – what a lovely compliment. I’m smiling too because, after reading your work today, I thought how lovely it would be to connected to your site, where such deepth is offered to all your readers. TY
I slipped in unnnoticed, to read and look around … will be back when I can sit and read for more than a few minutes at a time.
Thank you for stopping – I’ve changed recently from writing prose memoir pieces to crafting memoir into poetry. Find I love working like this with writing.