My debut poetry chapbook!

Six days of Napa Valley Writer’s Conference. I went as a fiction writer. It was intense and tremendously beneficial. The faculty are knowledgeable and fantastic. My fellow workshop authors are supportive and wonderful. An unforgettable week! #NVWC2025 #writingcommunity
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I play Tai Chi in spare time and wrote a poem about it. Our team leader sent it to the grandson of the founder of Yang Family Tai Chi Association. Now my poem is published in the international association’s newsletter.
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Attended a webinar by a literary agent. She said in fiction, we need to have a physical villain and a social villain. A physical villain could be a specific person, and a social villain could be like oppression. Just social villain is not enough. #fiction #WritingCommunity #writers

I like this a lot.

Language is rich, and malleable. It is a living, vibrant material, and every part of a poem works in conjunction with every other part – the content, the pace, the diction, the rhythm, the tone – as well as the very sliding, floating, thumping, rapping sounds of it.— Mary Oliver.
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“The idea of retirement never occurred to the Okinawa peasant.”This keeping of traditional roles are very important for people’s longevity in Okinawa. “A sudden loss of a person’s traditional role can have a measurable effect on morality.”— The Blue Zone by Dan Buettner longevity #health #longevity

(Writing a poem) is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory of emotion) and the learned skills of the conscious mind. They make appointments with each other, and keep them, and something begins to happen.—Mary Oliver. #writing #poetry

The Chicago Online Writing Conference was fantastic! The workshops are wonderful. I learned a lot. I also enjoyed being able to pitch directly to agents. Because it was online, it had a large number of agents, which was great! #WWOChicago #writingcommunity #writers #amwriting

Discipline is very important for creatives. We have to have appintments to have that worked out on a page. The creative part can get tired of waiting.— Mary Oliver #writing #poetry #poems
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