Tag: writing process

• Flowers These Keepsakes

  

  It is a very dim, cool Monday morning, but these flowers are all ready, each with a little story, flowers from the summer… The first I’d gotten is the little white daisy with the bright gold center that Dan gave to me on a very hot, refreshing daytime walk at a park near where we […]

  10/03/2022 11:41 am

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• A Self-Portrait & Writing by Hand

  

  Updates throughout, covers through Friday :D. Wednesday, and Virginia Woolf served so many cups of tea written into the short story collection Monday or Tuesday that there’s no desire left for another cup of tea for me today. From that particular set of stories, I really liked “The String Quartet” and “Kew Gardens.” Yesterday I […]

  09/29/2022 12:06 pm

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• An Unexpected Lounge

  

  reading The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis yesterday evening Today I am writing a short story, my first short story in awhile, an imagined one, and by in awhile, I mean the first one that I set out to write a short story intentionally. I will surround writing with yoga, sitting meditation, and self-massage. I […]

  09/23/2022 12:29 pm

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• A Petite Canvas: An Abstract Painting in the Making and Two Other Art Forms Calling

  I am working on a small (9 x 12) canvas for my baby nephew to display in his nursery; today is the second day I am working on it. I’ve felt most drawn to abstract art now, which is a spontaneous art for me, and I found I like it best done with a calm, […]

  09/15/2022 3:27 pm

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• A Paintbrush and a Novel

  I will begin writing my first novel and painting for my next art show I’d like to have, so the blog pace will slow (of course it needs to ;), but the site will be open, about painting and my novel in progress, and more.—But I am currently writing a short story, and I may […]

  09/01/2022 12:06 pm

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• New Fantasy Novel Found at the Bookshop, A New Poem Sent In, The Fun of a Giveaway I Had Not Won

  

  This is the new book I found Uprooted by Naomi Novik at the bookshop last time, by an author of our time, fantasy genre. I picked it based on the cover first and then the line on the cover: ‘enjoyable fantasy with the air of a modern classic.’ I am currently reading the book (Aug. […]

  08/17/2022 2:28 pm

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• A Very Short Story, “Sincerity”

  ….This Journal resumes… I received a letter this morning saying that my short story didn’t win the contest I’d mentioned; the judges enjoyed reading it and I enjoyed writing it very much too. The contest theme was ‘flying and falling’ with 800 words max and a contest I’d began looking into soon before entries closed, […]

  08/08/2022 4:24 pm

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• Short Story Complete, Celebrate—Photo 1

  

  I completed my very short story I’d been mentioning (had to be under 800 words) tonight, and it is the first one I’ve liked of mine in a long time. My own prescription: go out for a walk, snap photos— a few tiny scenes just because I felt like it, come back inside, drink water, […]

  07/25/2022 8:02 pm

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• “A Chipmunk Welcomes Himself” and “Caught Redhanded”

  July 20, 2022 (revised July 29th) A Chipmunk Welcomes Himself Sometime a week or two ago, the building door where I live was left open for a quick construction project. I walked in and two neighbors walked in a little bit behind me, the young woman giggled as she noticed a chipmunk who wandered in […]

  07/20/2022 4:24 pm

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• A Portrait of Peeko, Reading The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James as Much as I Want To

  

  “What would you like to say to your fans?” I said to Peeko, and snapped this photo.😊🐱^ * The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James is so funny. I’d found myself more irritable overall though when I was following strictly the schedule for the Goodreads group, Old Books, New Readers, and I thought I […]

  07/12/2022 7:27 pm

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• “Beside the Little Tray of Strawberries”

  Beside the Little Tray of Strawberries The bath is ready, the lavender soap block rinsed into the water, and on the ledge, I’d placed a little tray of fresh strawberries also water rinsed, two slices of cucumber pairs to place upon my very tired closed eyes—My host and wiser editor reminds me of the beauty […]

  07/05/2022 9:15 am

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• These Hands…

  In the post, A Note Found and a Bookmark and A Great First Art Show, I’d found some surprise things inside books, like a handwritten paper, so I decided to make up my own writing prompt with an idea I’d had…Whether you try this imaginary exercise or another, these free writes can be plenty of […]

  05/20/2022 11:17 am

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• The Moon’s Different Forms Tonight

  

  … Before bed Through the window, the moon is now shaped as a soft golden-yellow chrysanthemum and then like little square windows painted all golden-white…the tears left, the face kissed… while in the dark. —Jade

  05/15/2022 9:27 pm

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• A New Pansy Flower, Creative Days, and a Pair of Literary Salon Tuesdays

  

  This purple and yellow pansy flower on my balcony was born just today, and I kissed it gently this morning when I woke and saw it there…😘 and again this afternoon. Welcome to the world. 😊💕🍃 And this ‘Birds’ print chair made me smile when I saw it at the furniture store last week! I […]

  04/27/2022 7:15 pm

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• “The Castle Tower”

  

  The Castle Tower a pantoum by Jade Nicole Beals You’ve said I am entwined with the numberless. The castle tower trades its lace for the sky. All night, the tower climbs in secret, spinning its uppermost lace into the finest clouds. Please place your hands upon mine. The castle tower trades its lace for the […]

  04/25/2022 7:36 pm

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• A Letter to My Missing Sunglasses

  Dear Sunglasses I Lost (Maybe 6 Months Ago), Where did you go? I last saw you near my home—I think I’d put you down by the forest and forgot you there, but I can’t be too sure. The only animal I could think of might’ve taken you was a fox…I’ve never seen a fox, with […]

  04/24/2022 7:18 pm

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• Many a Thing…(A Trip to the Antiques Shop)

  

  Tues. Apr. 12, 2022 photo from Tues., Apr. 5th—“Pants by Peeko 🐱,” a perfectly good hemming this time, Peeko helping on his own when I got the pants ready (just ‘loungewear’, shown in previous post.) He was proud of both the task and his own joke: sitting like this holding the pants in place and […]

  04/15/2022 8:56 am

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• Celebrate, Happy Weekend! “Shivers” Yoga Dance – and Poetics

  

  From my youtube channel, Jade Nicole Yoga, dance and poetry calling me creatively today—Happy Weekend! Let’s Dance now, any day! “You are the poet, you are the writer, you are the artist, do you not remember from your early years a special circumstance, a beautiful scene, a whispered word, or a beloved face…that drew you […]

  04/08/2022 1:23 pm

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• “I Wondered if I Had Been a Bird”

  

  featured photo is a painting by Franz Marc, “Birds” (1914) I Wondered if I Had Been a Bird by Jade Nicole Beals for May Ziadeh (b. 1886 – 1941) I was very disturbed when what I’d found logical what could explain all this is that I could’ve been a bird before this. A canary, your […]

  04/07/2022 8:32 pm

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• “A Villanelle for the Times”

  

  You might remember when I was writing a villanelle poem, wanting to try another traditional form, as I’d written my first ghazal at the time and a sonnet, but I didn’t like the draft or that particular form for the idea. I transformed that villanelle into a ghazal, and I was happy with that latest […]

  04/05/2022 3:04 pm

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• More Poems and Even More Poems, Bringing Out the Purple Wizards…with Jason Preu

  

  📰Fresh off my Goodreads Press, the poetry book whose title and cover had been hidden by the first book on my coffee table, for suspense, included with that first one generously as complimentary bonus book by author—revealed now that it’s read, my introductory thoughts about the book: More Poems about Purple Wizards and Neon-Bright Exceptionalisms […]

  04/04/2022 1:10 pm

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• Spa Time at Home and a Couple of Phrases to Mend

  

  Feb. 11, ’22, needs improvement 🙂 March 22, ’22 I have taken out my newly-written ghazal poem (on my laptop) ‘tho I’d first thought it might still be too hot to my touch but it wasn’t and was ready to read. Reading it aloud I can see it is almost complete, but just one line […]

  03/22/2022 7:57 pm

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• I Turned My Villanelle into a Ghazal Today

  

  wrote by hand first, revised on laptop, typed paper is the original villanelle in transformation… I have turned my villanelle poem that was really giving me trouble into a ghazal today! I resisted doing that at first feeling I was maybe betraying the villanelle form and maybe also trying the complex, known-to-be-challenging ghazal form again […]

  03/18/2022 8:23 pm

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• An Island Novel I’d Read And My 1 Minute Impromptu Play About Writing Poetry

  

  my cat Peeko was sure to get to it first This is the first novel I’d read (titled The House at the Edge of Night), which combined mainly southern Italian characters with some British ones, as in a British man gets swept up onto the coast of this remote Italian island, Castellamare, during wartime. I’d […]

  03/17/2022 8:42 am

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• The Sun in My Cup, Draw What You See, A Morning of a Little Creativity

  

  There’s the sun in my cup of green-oolong tea…😊☕️This is a new one I’d tried and I am glad I remembered how much I love green-oolongs; this one’s called Ali Shan. I really like Ti Kuan Yin green-oolong and Golden Flower. I gave myself an assignment with my sketchbook—Pick something, place yourself somewhere (seated or […]

  03/14/2022 11:57 am

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