The Thursday! Newsletter 1-51: Two Small Things on An Off Week.
Volume 1, Issue 51
Hiatus Week, the First! Just a couple little nuggets for the week. Here we go!
First, we are only days away from Halloween, so let me share with you one of my favorite spooky stories, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving. I chose the version produced by Horror Babble, because they do excellent work and ought to be more widely known.
Second, here's something that's been on my mind lately. What if the medium we choose also influences how we go about creating our art? That is, what if the blank notebook is daunting because it is full of hundreds of blank pages? What if the notebook were smaller? What if we were to write a novel one chapter at a time, each in its own notebook? What if you used a smaller notebook for your poetry, so that each poem filled the page instead of filling only part of it? What if you carved from a small piece of wood or drew on a smaller canvas? Or a larger one? Or one that was different in a significant way from the usual (different paper, different rule, different paint, different instrumentation).
I've not reached any sort of conclusions about any of this but I thought it worth gnawing on for a while. Maybe you will, too.
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What I Wrote this Week
Huh. I didn't actually publish anything this week. Whoops! I hadn't intended that. I did write some things but the end of the week kept me away from my desktop computer and, since I have no laptop, I couldn't work remotely as it were. BUT WAIT! Last year, I wrote the "Monsterlogues", a series of Halloween-appropriate pieces. Want to see? You do! You'll figure out why I picked that name when I read one.
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