Normally I don’t like to share my haiku with my husband. It’s not that I’m afraid of his judgement, exactly. It’s more that the stuff scribbled in my personal notebooks is mostly just private. It hasn’t been edited, and it’s not publication-worthy, so why would I let someone else see it? But this morning he …
July 4, 2010 – 8:03 pm
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By Laura Roberts
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Posted in Haiku A Day, Holidaze, Life of an Artist, Literature
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Tagged Buddha, Crazy Cat Lady, eternal secrets, grocery list, haiku, lettuce, milk, Moonlight Sonata, Ned, new kitten, poems about my cat, private notebooks, VLAD
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Back in the glorious days of an Austin winter (glorious mainly because of the dead landscape, whose lack of pollen didn’t inherently tip off my allergies and require heavy OTC medication), I mentioned a free app that had inspired a few of my winter haiku. The freebie in question? OmmWriter, a Zen-like writing application that …
May 24, 2010 – 6:47 pm
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By Laura Roberts
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Posted in Austin, Creativity boosting tools, Haiku A Day, Life of an Artist
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Tagged allergies, Austin winter, boosting your creativity, Buddha Machine, Buddhists, escaping Windows, Falun Gong, free apps, iPod apps, iTunes, lyric-free playlists, monkey mind, OmmWriter, peace and tranquility, Shoestring Austin, winter haiku, Zen
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Lately I’ve been noticing that my writing has been in a bit of a slump. I only write a blog when I’m riled up about something, and then usually feel like it’s just a rant that isn’t worth posting after the emotions are spent. I’ve been writing really brief blogs about the books I’ve been …
February 15, 2010 – 12:44 pm
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By Laura Roberts
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Posted in Haiku A Day, Life of an Artist, Writing Tips
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Tagged 100% recycled paper, blogging, Canada, composition notebooks, cover letters, Crack Books, getting published, haiku, haiku a day, hipsters, how writers work, New Leaf Paper company, pomes, publication, resumes, to read pile, Vancouver Olympic Games, writing a novel, writing regimen, writing routines, writing tips, you've gotta be in it to win it, zero to hero
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I haven’t written any of my haiku-a-day in a while, and since I’ve got a few Basho books out of the library right now, I thought I’d give it a go. It’s the end of January, and I’m feeling a bit unmoored. I’m used to ice and snow at this time of the year, and …
January 31, 2010 – 9:28 pm
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By Laura Roberts
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Posted in Austin, Haiku A Day, Life of an Artist, Literature, Montreal
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Tagged book a day, book per day, Buddha Machine, CameliaTWU, Cormac McCarthy, CrackBooks, Flickr, free writing programs, George Whitman, greg westfall, haiku, haiku a day, It's Not Cold In Here You're Just Dying, Jeremy Mercer, OmmWriter, Paris, Sarah Silverman, Shakespeare and Company, Texas, Texas in winter #4, Texas winter landscape (with poodles), The Road, Time Was Soft There, Under the Tuscan Sun, winter, winter haiku, Winter Wonderland
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