
This week’s writing prompt is about the difficulties of routines.

Art begins at home: Lauren Nicole Nixon interviews Noelle Ghoussaini and Shelah Marie, co-founders of 1242 Pacific Productions, their home that also functions as a performance space, and discusses the power of transforming the home space into a performance space.

Traci shares what she’s learned about book promotion—a necessary skill for every writer to possess: “For most poets, they alone are responsible for setting up readings, getting reviews, and selling copies. It can be a frustrating process… Here are some things people have told me about promoting a poetry book—some worked, some did not, but they’re all things I wish I’d been told before my book came out.”

Melissa shares her 2011 NaNoWriMo experience: some new lessons, the remembered knowledge that writing everyday is possible, even in the midst of a full life, and offers up some goodies for NaNoWriMo Winners to take advantage of!

Lauren Nicole Nixon shares the visceral experience of attending performance art: “What I can really remember is the way that my body reacted to certain moments in the work… indicators that we are living and breathing and connecting with something outside of ourselves.”

Traci offers some practical advice about submitting work for publication: “I can’t remember where I first heard the advice, but in an auditorium at some conference buried deep in my memory is the voice of a poet who said five submissions are a joke. If you want to be published, you need to have at least thirty submissions out at all times. At the time I heard that, I don’t think I had even written thirty poems I liked, let alone enough to fill thirty submissions.”

NaNoWriMo participant and Municipal Liaison Teresa Schultz-Jones writes about her motives and methods for the annual 50,000 word challenge and the secret she has uncovered over the last eight years of participating: “It’s a lot less about the novel than it is about discovering your inner author and learning to have fun with writing.”

Traci Brimhall blogs about gratitude this week: “I am grateful for strangers—for the people I’ve never met who write me emails after reading my work because they were moved by something or wanted to share a similar experience, and for the people I meet on sidewalks who help me stop my runaway papers or share their umbrellas on a walk to the parking lot.”
Join Traci each week as she blogs about poetry and her daily writing life in the run up to her next title release, Our Lady of the Ruins. Listen to Traci's One World Café podcast here.
Lauren writes about her experience as a poet, performer and the creative life in the city. Listen to her One World Café Virtual Reading here.
With over fifty years of writing experience, Jyl posts about the writing process with occasional writing prompts to encourage your practice. Find out more about Jyl at jyllynnfelman.com.
Terri gives you advice on indie publishing and how to confidently go your own way. She encourages readers to ask questions. Start reading about Terri's indie publishing process here.
February 3, 2012 By Terri Giuliano Long from The Writer's Life
February 2, 2012 By Kate Robinson from Blogs, InContext
February 1, 2012 By Marina DelVecchio from InContext
February 1, 2012 By Lauren Nicole Nixon from The Writer's Life

January 31, 2012 By Traci Brimhall from The Writer's Life
Traci reveals the impetus to her life journey of writing: “I needed to love something badly enough to change my life, and that thing was poetry.”
Mule & Pear, New Poems by Rachel Eliza Griffiths from Rachel Eliza Griffiths.
Listen to Rachel's One World Café podcast here.
January 23, 2012 from Art News
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