Denise E Lindquist
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I am married with 7 children, 28 grands, and 13 great-grandchildren. I am a culture consultant part-time. I write A Poem a Day in February for 8 years now. I wrote 4 - 50,000 word stories in NaNoWriMo. I write on Vocal/Medium daily.
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Humor And Other Healing Ways
Author's Note: I was at a training yesterday and discussed methods in general and specifically on Native American healing methods. A traditional healer friend told me that what I got from Reiki, my spirit animal, my colors, physical, emotional and spiritual healing that all would have came from our ceremonies. We didn't get religious freedom until 1978, when I was 24 years old and it has taken years to come above ground. And some things never will. So, I talked about what I know personnally and no more.
By Denise E Lindquist3 days ago in Poets
Unusual Names To Go In Writing Fiction
Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter — What If? Writing Exercise for Fiction Writers prompts The Exercise — In your notebook, keep a list of unusual names for potential characters. In fact, every writer should have a collection of old yearbooks, benefit programs, phonebooks, and so forth to browse through when he needs to name a character. And don't stop there. Keep lists for things you might need to name sometime in a story. Remember that tone is important, so when naming the list below of things choose an earnest name and a farcical one. Name the following things. Imagine stories they might go in. The Objective - To loosen up your imagination by naming things you wouldn't ordinarily have to name - never mind "own."
By Denise E Lindquist6 days ago in Writers
World War III
Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter — What If? Writing Exercise for Fiction Writers prompts The Exercise — Choose a story to work with that is still in an early draft form. Read it through so you are thoroughly familiar with it and with the characters. Then find a place in the story to complete and insert the following sentences underlined below (change the pronoun as necessary.) Then come up with a few of your own inserts. The Objective - To experience how your semiconscious imagination is capable of conjuring up material that is absolutely organic to your story for each "fill-in" from the above list. Writers who do this exercise are always amazed at how something so seeminly artifical can provide them with effective additions to their stories.
By Denise E Lindquist9 days ago in Writers
