Playing Around with a Story Line in Different Literary Genres 

I’m trying something totally new in my writing life as a journalist (my longtime profession) and a novelist (my newer passion.)  A challenge, a dare.   Maybe you’d like to take the challenge too?

I thought, what about exploring writing in different literary genres?

Short pieces like the mini short story, the character sketch, a travel vignette or a fairy tale—BUT ALL INSPIRED BY THE SAME STORY LINE?    The story line will change periodically.

It’s about the pure pleasure of writing.  Some may be good, some not so good, some terrible but IT’S REALLY ALL ABOUT THE PRACTICE.   I’m excited.

I connect my writing to dancing.  The dancer Isadora Duncan is my writing muse.  Her moves seem to flow without effort, like a line of clear prose that rushes straight down into the heart.  I’ve thought,

What if Isadora were a Writer?

Her words would glide from one impulse to the next.  She would take leaps into the unknown.  Very inspiring!

So all you wonderful writers out there.  I dearly hope that this bi-monthly blog will tempt you to venture onto different literary paths and float down to where your stories are.

IN YOUR OWN SPECIAL WAY

Writers write, all the time, when it flows and when it doesn’t.

Here’s to the blossoming of your creative selves

UPDATE
April 2015
My blog has decided to evolve of its own accord. Guided by my muse, that inner creative impulse we all possess, my thoughts on writing have shifted and now focus on capturing moments. Moments that will deepen our characters, sense of place and clarify our voice. Story lines and literary genres have now moved over in deference to THE MOMENT.
I now experience my muse, Isadora Duncan, differently. While the flow of her dance is the flow I aim for in my writing, I think I have been looking at it backwards. Flow doesn’t come first, I now believe. Clear, beautiful sentences come first in writing. Each exquisite pirouette or hand gesture come first in dance. The flow that emerges from such sentences and dance moves will then be organic, not imposed. One perfect sentence and the reader wants more. One perfect arabesque and the audience wants more. For writers each sentence is a dance in itself.
I hope this blog will inspire you to bring up all the beautiful sentences in your writer’s imagination. We need to work on them and then let them flow.
March 8, 2022
Hello again Writers
My ongoing and most recent wishes for your writing life:
I wish you writing that reflects your own unique creative imagination; writing that  fills you with the sense you have said what you wanted to say; writing that is beautiful because you have written the world as you see it and most, most importantly you have written the world as you feel it–as you intuit it. I wish you access to your own interiority.  Be well, Cynthia