Category Archives: uncatagorized

I missed last week’s call (will listen to it later), but since no one has posted on the substitution exercise suggested by Jack (story for model) I just wanted to say that I found it useful.  It helped me to see that … Continue reading →

  I was actually a bit skeptical of part C of Exercise 9 when I first started working with it this week, particularly the suggestion that I would find an “aura” around each thought, and that “expanding awareness” into these … Continue reading →

I am very much struck by the insight (and partly experience of the last weeks) that my reality is a construct of countless stories and I am the narrator of it – as the novelwriter is the narrator of  the … Continue reading →

“Stranger than Fiction” shows a writer with writer’s block.  The way she smokes her cigarettes makes me think of an addict who is in dispair but can’t stop.  The spirit of change that enters her life is like that of … Continue reading →

Perhaps I’ve been experiencing a lightening of the power of stories to define my world of the moment.  I’ve been noticing how hard it is to include another person when they don’t seem to include me.  Yet their contribution may be indispensible to … Continue reading →

Whoops! I let that last post get rather long. Here is another. Louise, this is a very personal situation, so I don’t have much to say. Does it look different if you look in terms of stories? Yours? His? Your … Continue reading →

David writes, “I am so and so, and . . . I [must] behave like him.” That’s indeed how we make sense of our lives. I remember a line spoken by a character in a short story by Lionel Trilling, … Continue reading →

It’s very nice to see all the activity these last few days, and to see the vigor with which you are pursuing inquiry. Reaching back to what’s been posted since my last post, here are some comments: Christopher, I’m glad … Continue reading →

I suspect this post falls short of the criteria set, but my will to submit is lapsing from mixed feelings in making a working connection to the ‘stuff’ we’re covering, and discovering how I actually relate to life, especially as I … Continue reading →

I was taking a walk thru Golden Gate Park this week thinking about story.  I was letting my mind wander then noticing the stories it came up with and trying to notice the relation of the stories to myself, my … Continue reading →