I just got my sketchbook for The Sketchbook Project. It's both exciting and intimidating at the same time. But mostly exciting.
I chose the theme of HOPE and am starting to play around with ideas of how to utilize it in the sketchbook. I may combine poetry and art. Or maybe not. But I'm curious, when you hear the word hope, what do you think? See? Feel?
There are so many stories only you can tell.Tell them, please.
Who am I?I was born on the Cancer/Leo cusp and share a birthday with Ernest Hemingway and Robin Williams. The similarities don't stop there as I can go from depressed to ecstatic without ever passing go. I feel scared most of the time though my friends call me brave and I find it easier to believe in my friends than to believe in my own abilities to make what I want out of my life.
Who am I? A wife, a mother, a daughter, and even, gulp, a grandmother.
Who am I? A writer who never gets tired of playing with words, even when the words are hard to find. A writer of books for children and articles for grown-ups and many things in-between.
Who am I? A motivational speaker, writing instructor, workshop leader and full-time follower of dreams.
Who am I? Read and find out.
Susan Taylor Brown
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"Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones who discover what is most important and strangest and most pleasurable in themselves, and keep believing in the value of their work, despite the difficulties."
--Bonnie Friedman
"As writers, we must be willing to feel our sadness, our anger, our terror, so we can reach in and find our sweet vulnerability that is just sitting there waiting for us to come back home."
--Nancy Slonim Aronie
"Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of 6. I lost my faith as a Catholic. When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is."
--Anne Rice
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It took me weeks to draw a single thing in it...it is intimidating. I had to sort of tell myself this doesn't have to be like, some ridiculously awesome thing I can't actually accomplish.
But see, at least you can, uhm, DRAW. I'm going to have to go abstract with collage and paint.
Did you rebind your book? It's really flimsy and the paper is thin.
Well since I don't sketch, I'm doing collage. I'm thinking I'll collage a background page and then add to it. I'll probably have to take the staples out and stitch it instead because it will be fatter but I haven't a clue how to rebind stuff so I don't want to learn on this project.
It's an excitement deep in my belly and my heart.
It's a promise of things yet to come, good things.
It's a baby's laugh, an infant's smile. It's the shining eyes of children on Christmas Eve.
It's the satisfied look on the face of a graduate receiving a diploma who knows adventure lies just around the corner.
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Office Depot, Office Max, and Kinkos all bind items for you. Probably in one of those comb things, but I'm guessing there are choices.
I hope this helps. Hope is a pretty deep subject for me. I like that you're doing it. :) My name is Shay by the way. :D Good luck with this all.