Trust Your Muscle
Vanessa Blakeslee on writing novels vs. short stories, and writing as a form of cross-training.
Read More...by Vanessa Blakeslee… The masters take their lead, but in The Circle, there truly is no hallowed point…
Read More...Spiritual Waters
Vanessa Blakeslee on writing, dance, and spirituality…
Read More...An Exercise, and Final Adjustments
Vanessa Blakeslee offers up a writer exercise, and a poem.
Read More...Vanessa Blakeslee muses on sustaining the fictional dream and keeping your ankle turned in.
Read More...The Mistake
What would you do if there was a glaring typo in your masterpiece? Fret, drink, both?
Read More...Behind the Scenes
It reminds me of the ways people used to react when I announced that I wanted to be a writer as a teenager. “Oh, so you want to teach English?” was the standard reply, or something similar about working for a newspaper, becoming a journalist.
Read More...So You Want to Be a Professional Artist?
[dropcap]O[/dropcap]ver the past two weeks, I’ve begun my first season as a member of the Gypsy Sa’har troupe at the Orlando Bellydance Performance Company. Troupe…
Read More...Doorway of Dreams
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s a young reader I had a bookmark which read, Dare to dream the impossible against a glittery backdrop of Pegasus in flight. When the…
Read More...Choreography as Poem
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]oday I wrote a new poem. Only not with words, but with my body. This poem is set to music, a slow, snake-like song called…
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