I am writing you from Whistler (a two hour drive from where we live in North Vancouver). While it isn’t exactly cold any more there is supposed to be new snow on the hill and the skiing is going to be great. I’ll try to take some pictures while I’m up here. Keep an eye on my photoblog as I will be posting a series of photos taken a couple weeks ago of the cabin we stay in when we come up here. It is your stereotypical, 1960’s/70’s cabin full of all the essential trinkets: a wall of creepy wooden masks, some First Nations carvings, a shrine of dried flowers, small embroidered birds in little gold frames, a couple of stained-glass skiers, a fireplace, and the orange shag carpet without which no cabin would be complete. I wouldn’t change a thing!

A picture of the drive up yesterday.

I was thinking of starting something new….tell me what you think. I want to do themed weeks. So, each week I’ll pick a topic/form/genre and do three posts on that. I’ll take suggestions that will have to be in by Saturday for the following week or just choose my own. What do you think?

 

Exercises:

I got these exercises from http://languageisavirus.com/writing_prompts.html

Write what is secret. Then write what is shared. Experiment with writing each in two different ways: veiled language, direct language.

Write a perfect poem. (I think this is interesting, funny and thought-provoking. What is “perfect”, does perfection exist? And if it does what does it look like in a poem? And we all know it’s impossible to write a “perfect poem”, right? Inquiring minds….)

Something on your mind? Write about it.