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6.13.05. I'm taking an open air oil panting class this summer. I hope it'll reinspire my creativity. My fiction writing is stalled. I'm testing a theory - does creative endeavor in one area, like painting, inspire creative endeavor in another, like writing? I'll let you know. I have this novel I've been writing and rewriting for years. Literally. I almost got inspired by a wonderful novel I just finished. Crescent by Diane Abu-Jaber. A wonderful evocative story that makes your mouth water. She's a great writer about food but her prose will make your mouth water too, such luscious descriptions of food and cooking and the way the light filters in the café where the heroine works. I'd have a link to her site on my links page but I don't think she has one. She should! So I say almost because even after finishing Crescent, I didn't sit down and work on my own story. I read her first novel, Arabian Jazz. I didn't like it nearly as much. However, I saw the beginnings of Crescent in it, and that gave me some hope. That if I can only finish my first novel, I can then write a better one. Groan. While I was avoiding writing, I did find a delightful site. Go to BoingBoing, a directory of wonderful things. Now, of course, I'm working on my own site. That counts as creative work, right? But it isn't writing my novel.
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