Permission and Possibility
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Jeannetta & Brittany discuss permission and possibility in Episode 2. Questions 1. How do you steal while still being original? 2. Do you feel like you already have an inclination where you need to go, which form you need to use, do you experiment with different forms, or do you just start writing? What comes first? 3. How do you navigate when people say a poem is too abstract? My expectation is that a poem will always be somewhat abstract. Do you get what people are saying when they say it is? 4. How do you honor permission in your work? In what ways are you giving yourself permission? In what way are you noticing you are not? How do you address this in your writing? Show Notes Writers, books, articles, ideas and questions mentioned in this episode Jericho Brown “Duplex” from his book The Tradition. Also available on the Poetry Foundation website: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/152729/duplex Steal like an Artist by Austin Kleon: https://austinkleon.com/steal/ Turns out this one was Hemingway…“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.” - https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/30849-all-you-have-to-do-is-write-one-true-sentence Spike Lee, School Daze: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096054/ Lidia Yuknavitch and Corporeal Writing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9pUjixyWI4
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What does permission look like for you? Have you given yourself permission to write about things your community has rules about keeping quiet? Permission can look like your random, creative side stretching and trying new things or “stealing” what you’ve seen other writers do in order to practice and improve your own writing. It can also look like putting the words you truly want to say on the page and building around that foundation. When it comes to possibility, surrendering to a loss of control over parts of your writing process, where that writing goes, or even how the story is communicated can open up doors to the new and unexpected. Guides can provide new paths to explore, ideas to contemplate, and expand our own notions of what is possible on the page; those same guides can provide access to permission. If someone else has written freely and with abandon, created new forms, or told a story in a way you’ve never seen before, you can too!
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