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Stairs & Ascensions: Lighthouse in New Jersey

By L.L. Barkat Leave a Comment

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For this month’s “Stairs and Ascensions” theme, enjoy this patron-only excerpt from L.L. Barkat’s beloved Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing.

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Poetry Prompt: The Alphabet—Letter Poems

By Callie Feyen 5 Comments

What letters can you find among animals and insects?

Let’s take a look at the alphabet and see what creatures crawl and spring from letters we know so well. Then, it’s time to write letter poems!

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Top 10 Reasons to Re-Read ‘Rumors of Water’

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

Top Ten Reasons to Read Rumors of Water

What’s your favorite writing book? LW Lindquist says it’s time to re-read Rumors of Water and has 10 great quotes to tell you why.

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Rumors of Water: Time

By Will Willingham 30 Comments

What really happened on the golf course that fateful day? The things we cannot write about today, we will surely find we can write about tomorrow.

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Rumors of Water: A Small Audience

By Will Willingham 32 Comments

The key to getting published is to keep working with small audiences, while gradually making forays into slightly larger arenas.

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Rumors of Water: Play

By Will Willingham 37 Comments

Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center Denton Nebraska milkweek flower

With Spring coming into full bloom, I’m still doing all the same serious things I did all winter long. But I get up a little earlier and I read a poem (or two) every day.

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Rumors of Water: Voice

By Will Willingham 46 Comments

Perhaps cultivating a writer’s voice can be more about nourishing those things that give life to it: passions and a sense of place.

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Rumors of Water: The Ingredients at Hand

By Will Willingham

Of all the gifts Rumors of Water will give a writer, an excuse is not one.

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Rumors of Water Book Club

By L.L. Barkat 6 Comments

Join our thoughtful and amusing senior editor, for this book club on Rumors of Water.

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