Carol's Blog

Write about summer sounds. You might want to start with a line from this poem, from today’sWriter’s Almanac: Soundings In the afternoon of summer, soundscome through the window: a tractormuttering to itself as it pivots at the corner of thehay field, stalled for a momentas the green row feeds into the baler. The wind slips […]

Sontag writes, in Susan Sontag Reborn: Journals & Notebooks 1947-1963 “Athens would make a good setting for a story–about foreigners, traveling. It has lots of clear-cut and attractive props. The plump American queens of Athens, the dusty streets filled with construction work, bouzouki bands in the taverna gardens at night, eating plates of thick yoghourt […]

Write about a summer family reunion. You might want to use a line from the poem below to get started. Family Reunion The divorced mother and her divorcingdaughter. The about-to-be ex-son-in-lawand the ex-husband’s adopted son.The divorcing daughter’s child, who is the step-nephew of the ex-husband’sadopted son. Everyone cordial:the ex-husband’s second wifefriendly to the first wife, […]

Sit in a garden and write. What do you hear, smell, see? What’s crawling on the earth? Observe the sunlight on the plants. Feel their leaves. “. . . I have salvaged dead wood from the grove of trees behind the flower bed, have made a crude bench from this. I sit there and I […]