17 Mar On Journeys Through the Australian States
Time passed writing about passing time in an airport coffee shop...
09 Sep The Most Shocking Ending in All Literature
Posted at 22:54h in art, beauty, japan, life, literature, poetry, writing by Le Chef Gateaux 12 Comments
“How oddly situated a man is apt to find himself at the age of thirty-eight! His youth belongs to the distant past. Yet the period of memory beginning with the end of youth and extending to the present has left him not a single vivid...
22 Jun What Matter Age?
Posted at 01:01h in childhood, funny, inspiring, internet, life, literature, meditation, music, poetry, sri chinmoy by Le Chef Gateaux 2 Comments
There’s a funny saying about things that go around coming around. Usually it’s karma, an eye for an eye and a sow for a reap—the great spiritual law of the universe that dictates bad things for things done badly, good for that done gladly. But inspiration...
22 Mar The poetry of death
Mostly unheard of in Western culture, where the document most commonly associated with death is a will—a binding legal document descriptive of property but little poetry, jisei, or death poetry, is a poem completed near the time of death; a profound, personal epitaph for a...
05 Mar Find your true voice as a writer
Finding one’s voice as a writer is the difficult but necessary first task facing every new author—spelling and grammar perhaps excepted. While there is no better or other way to become an authentic, original writer than to write, and write, and write...
21 Feb Search Engine Haiku
Found poetry is the rearrangement of words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages that are taken from other sources and reframed as poetry by changes in spacing and/or lines (and consequently meaning), or by altering the text by additions and/or deletions. The resulting poem can be...
14 Jan Make your writing effortless
Posted at 06:41h in inspiring, literature, meditation, poetry, walt whitman, writing by Le Chef Gateaux 1 Comment
Having written all of half a dozen blog posts in a handful of months, it might seem likely a less than timely time to write about how to make one’s writing effortless, but maybe this is a kind of reverse serendipity—for right now effortless writing...