Hope, expectation, Bright promises.
The Moon is a card of magic and mystery - when prominent you know that nothing is as it seems, particularly when it concerns relationships. All logic is thrown out the window.
The Moon is all about visions and illusions, madness, genius and poetry. This is a card that has to do with sleep, and so with both dreams and nightmares. It is a scary card in that it warns that there might be hidden enemies, tricks and falsehoods. But it should also be remembered that this is a card of great creativity, of powerful magic, primal feelings and intuition. You may be going through a time of emotional and mental trial; if you have any past mental problems, you must be vigilant in taking your medication but avoid drugs or alcohol, as abuse of either will cause them irreparable damage. This time however, can also result in great creativity, psychic powers, visions and insight. You can and should trust your intuition.
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Hey Colleen:
I am so shameless, assuming that I'm the Richard in question! But since I'm also the Richard tagged above, it allows me to plunge right in.
Have you read William Zinsser's On Writing Well? Well, he's my writing guru.
Whenever I taught writing to high school students through the WITS program, I merely developed exercises based on Zinsser's book, telling students that they have to learn write so that every word counts. I would hand out 50 bad sentences, and tell them to either strip out the meaningless words, or rewrite the sentence to make it better. So it was all about cutting, allowing the words to have the meaning they were meant to have. And I would go through their own work — or through my own — to show how ruthlessly I edit, of how I try to make every word count.
And then, and only then, can you find your voice. When writing is uncluttered and stripped to its bare essentials, then you can start adding back. Little flourishes and turns of phrase that are uniquely your own.
And then I would present some great examples of creative writing, and we'd talk about why they were great.
Of course, they were one-off sessions, so I never got to see if my students actually put any of their lessons into practice. But the smiles and appreciation that I received when the class ended were always meant the world to me.
I also presented a few little odds and ends that always help me do better work. LIke editing a hard copy. Like reading the work out loud, and having someone else read it back, so you can discern tempo and cadence. Like rewriting the important stuff a dozen times. Like reading Zinsser and Strunk and White every six months.
Hope this helps!
Silly, silly man. Of course I meant you. Who else could it be? :-)
Thank you for giving me this to think over. In November, I had done some of the sentence rewriting with them, but obviously need to do more.
And settling in with my pristine copy of the Elements of Style will teach me as well.
Do I have Zinsser? I'll have to hunt.
Thanks again for this. I appreciate you taking the time.
This teaching gig is really time consuming! :-)
If anyone knows where I can find stuff online, please let me know.
I know you are very busy but would love to sip coffee with you sometime again. I'd love to hear about your teaching gig etc.
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