"Ekphrastic Magic" Exhibition at Revela'T Analog Photography Festival 📄🖊📸

Super excited to have poetry in the awesome collaborative "Ekphrastic Magic" photo-poetry project curated by the fabulous @amyjasek @filmshooterscollective in the international Revela'T Analog Photography Festival, currently running in Barcelona! Check out the festival website for excerpts of the excellent work in the "Ekphrastic Magic" exhibit as well as a listing of other fine photographers/photographic exhibits now on view in Spain and on their Instagram @revelatfestival .

More details about the exhibit: “The Film Shooters Collective is proud to present ‘Ekphrastic Magic’: an interdisciplinary project bringing together thirty FSC members and thirty writers. In it / Ekphrastic Magic, the private world of the photographer becomes the solitary walk of a poet, and together they create a new, unique universe, welcoming in the viewer to bring their own experiences to their personal interpretation of the work. The photographs range from 35mm and 120 film to instant film and even tintype; the images and words are as diverse as the artists who made them.”

To celebrate, I thought I'd post this film photo I took this summer on #kodak #kodakfilm with my #35mmfilm Canon camera. Can't resist glasses, violets, and reflections.

NaNoWriMo 2021

I'm looking forward to NaNoWriMo in just a few weeks. I'll be writing each day of November, although probably in different genres and different projects and likely less than 1500 words a day (shaking up the rules a wee bit is part of the fun, right? 😁). Still, participate by writing each day I shall. 🙌🖊📄

Cheering on my fellow writer peeps who are either definitely going to participate or who are thinking about it. If you want, drop a line below about the project you want to write/work on.

Relaunch: Renewed! 30 Affirmation Cards

After redesigning the box of my Portable Muse Cards this summer, I crafted a new box for a second printing of my Renewed! 30 Affirmation Cards, too. They’re now up for sale at my Etsy and all set for great new homes. Ta-da!

Get your cards and more info at: WritePathProductions (my Etsy store).

Amazing Music: Friday, September 17th: Link 🎶🎼

So honored that several poems from my collection, This Passing Fever, will be set to music and sung during this amazing performance.

Please tune into the livestream next Friday, September 17th at 8:15 Eastern or 7:15 Central. The livestream link:

Recital Hall Webcast | Department of Music and Theatre (iastate.edu)

My Poems Set to Music and Voice! 🎶🎼

I’m super excited to announce that selected poems from my collection, This Passing Fever, have been set to music and voice by the incredibly talented composer and musician Jodi Goble and will be performed by an array of professional vocalists and musicians at Iowa State University on Friday, September 17th at 7:30 pm (Central)/ 8:30 pm (EST).

Through the magic of the interwebs, there will be a livestream which I will link closer to the date. Mark your calendars now—I’ve heard clips and these folks are amazing and first-rate! It’s an honor to have them perform my work.

✨On Developmental Editing: More of the Scoop at …But I Also Have a Day Job ✨

Photo Courtesy of Laura Chouette, unsplash.com

Wonder how a developmental edit works? The answer by super talented writer and fellow Daria aficionado Ian Rogers at …But I Also Have a Day Job. @IantheRoge 🙌

While you’re there, read his insightful interviews with inspiring writing advice from cool writers, such as Gina Troisi.

Also, check out TRAM, the awesome indie zine out of Toyama, Japan that Ian co-edits.

Also, get ready for his debut novel, MFA Thesis Novel, dropping in April 2022 at Vine Leaves Press @VineLeavesPress --it's fantastic and funny. I’m excited for readers and fellow writers to get their hands on this literary gem. 📘📚🖊

Photo Courtesy of Laura Chouette, unsplash.com

Great News: Beyond Words Literary Magazine Second Printing

So pleased that this issue of the stellar international literary journal, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, from last June has now gone into a second printing! 😍📸

I have photography in the June 2020 issue as well as in their current May 2021 issue.

Get your copy/subscription today @beyondwordsmagazine . Also, consider submitting your words or art.

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

❄Featured in Snowflakes in a Blizzard ❄

Pleased to share that my craft book, Photography for Writers, is featured this week in Snowflakes in a Blizzard, a wonderful book blog.

Learn more about the blog as well as check out their other great featured books here and here.

🌟National Poetry Month Ekphrastic Project 📸🖊

Know what’s just around the corner?

National Poetry Month. (Making April everyone’s fav month for 25 years and counting.) 😊

Know what else? I’m thrilled to say that I’ve been asked to take part in Film Shooters Collective’s rad project that pairs film photographers’ work with poets’ verse each day in April. That’s right: I’ve penned a poem based on the amazing art of a fellow photographer. Stay tuned! 📸

Be sure to check Film Shooters Collective’s Insta and website each day for your daily dose of delicious inspiration.

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Care for some sweet poetic inspiration in the meantime? Check out my book—filled with oodles of tips and prompts created with poets in mind:

Poetry Power

Now also available in the 3-book series for e-readers!

Signed copies available at: WritePath Productions, my Etsy store

✨Switch it up with Journaling Power! ✨

I’m pleased to be a part of talented Mari L. McCarthy’s WOW! Women on Writing Blog Tour today. I love getting to share info about books that make a difference in writers’ lives. 😊📚 Ta-da, and read on!

“Switch it up with Journaling Power!”

 

“Life can only be understood backwards,

but it must be lived forwards.”

--Soren Kierkegaard

One of the coolest aspects of teaching creative writing and as a nonfiction writer myself is connecting with talented authors whose work inspires my own writing journey.

I’ve lost track of how many writers I’ve recommended Journaling Power: How To Create the Happy, Healthy, Life You Want to Live, because it’s the kind of book that I recommend so frequently to writers.

No matter what genres my students write—from poetry to nonfiction and novels to flash fiction and screenwriting—the wise tips and advice offered in Journaling Power sustain a hearty writing process with insights for all writers. It encourages writers to switch up their current thoughts to make and meet goals right now, right where writers are in their lives.

From mindful eating to reversing years of repressed emotions and from overcoming the Inner Critic to positive self-talk and encouraging your Inner Coach, Journaling Power is both warmly inviting and unafraid to tackle the big opportunities for development and healing that are present through an ongoing journaling practice.   

Spend time with Journaling Power and two things become immediately clear: 1. Mari has an authenticity and a zest for living and she’s candid about how journaling boosted her own life journey that has had significant bumps and shifts in plans, such as MS and her long-ago music teacher’s careless comments (you’ll learn more about both in her book), and 2. Mari’s enthusiasm for helping others live their best lives is inspiring and ever-present in her writing, in her courses, and on her website.

Lucky readers!

Journaling Power is packed not only with personal anecdotes and motivating quotes (including the one that opens this blog) that will interest readers, but also with journaling exercises that leap off the page and spark writers’ pens.  

No wonder it has won numerous writing awards, including a 2018 COVR Visionary Health and Healing Award, a 2019 NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite, and a 2019 Nonfiction Authors Association Silver Award.

Grab a journal, a pen, and a copy of Journaling Power today. It’ll inspire one of the best gifts you can offer yourself and your writing: the promise of your growth from this day forward.

As Mari says, and it’s brilliant advice: #JustWRITEON!

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Journaling Power is available in print and e-book on Amazon, Create Write Now, and Barnes and Noble. 

You can also add it to your GoodReads reading list.

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About the Author, Mari L. McCarthy

Mari L. McCarthy, Founder and Inner Work Tour Guide of CreateWriteNow.com shows curious health-conscious people how to use Journaling For The Health Of It®️ to heal the emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual issues in their tissues and to know and grow their True Self. She’s the multi-award-winning author of Journaling Power: How To Create The Happy, Healthy Life You Want To Live and Heal Your Self With Journaling Power. She’s also created 20+ Journaling For The Health Of It® Inner Journey Workbooks that include Who Am I?, Declutter Your Life In 28 Days, and Take Control Of Your Health In 24 Days. 

Find her online at: 

Website: http://createwritenow.com/ 

Facebook: http://facebook.com/CreateWriteNow 

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwtlBKKHXAfl_fZjLtOGMHA