writing

Show, don’t tell

by rosedeniz September 15, 2010 art

Tweet Illustration for PAWI writing club Artists tend to know this concept intimately: show, don’t tell. Writers are beseeched to embrace it, but art is all about showing, even when work like Nancy Spero’s The Torture of Women from 1976 includes jarring, typewritten layers of text.  In conversation yesterday with Julie Tallard Johnson, we talked about her book The […]

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Pop culture vs. high art?

by rosedeniz September 2, 2010 art

Tweet I’m a latecomer to the Glee obsession. My August NaNoWriMo writing binge was followed by three days of the first season of Glee with breaks to sleep, eat, shower, and feed my kids. It has become a post-project ritual to dive into entire seasons of shows and catch up on movies I’ve missed. Glee is research, […]

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Monsters, irascible inner critics, and Merilee

by rosedeniz August 19, 2010 creativity

Tweet “Hybrids are used to strengthen the homogeneous. Grafting different orchids together makes flowers nobody has ever seen before. Cross-pollinating makes hardier fruits and vegetables. Hybrid cars are more energy efficient. Not one, or the other. Both. Conjoined. The hybrid/monster can be sensed even from the shadows. Poison Ivy left behind her traces of vanilla scent. The snakes […]

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Voice lessons from a hybrid ambassador

by rosedeniz August 11, 2010 writing

Tweet HYBRID AMBASSADORS: a blog-ring project of Dialogue2010You met our multinational cultural innovators this spring in a roundtable discussion of hybrid life at expat+HAREM. Now in these interconnected blog posts they share reactions to a recent polarizing book promotion at SheWrites. Join the discussion on Twitter using #HybridAmbassadors or #Dialogue2010 Every day, from my Twitter stream to my blog […]

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Who was Lethe Bashar?

by rosedeniz July 29, 2010 art

Tweet I knew him by his pseudonym, Lethe Bashar, but his real name was Chris. In the middle of him editing my short story The Mercy Troupers for Escape into Life, I realized his Twitter name had changed to Chris Al-Aswad.“Who’s Chris?” I asked.“That’s my real name,” he said.Lethe Bashar was the author of Novel of […]

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Summer stories

by rosedeniz July 8, 2010 nesting

Tweet In the maroon recliner in our living room with the overhead fan whirling, I read A Tree Grows In Brooklyn And Maggie-Now every summer until we moved from Wisconsin to Minnesota. My reading grew to include contraband paperbacks I hid behind bookshelves and the now defunct Sassy magazine.  My first summer in Turkey I read everything by Jane Austen. I measured […]

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How do you identify your center?

by rosedeniz June 11, 2010 art

Tweet Ferries and mosques, seagulls and bridges. Quintessential imagery of Istanbul.  In drawings and flashes of ideas, many that remain untapped in Jungian shadows, I explore the reasons I am here and not there. I write and make art to ask questions and explore the answers, not to wear the painter’s hat. Different vehicles, same […]

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The postscript explains it all

by rosedeniz May 21, 2010 global niche

Tweet I love P.S.’s. I love footnotes and hidden messages. But these days it’s all about becoming visible. Finding your voice. Whatever phraseology you choose, this week Havi nudges me to consider that being visible and putting stuff out there = terrifying but doesn’t mean I can get away with not putting stuff out there. Anastasia Ashman replies that the […]

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On the way to Ortaköy

by rosedeniz January 3, 2010 Turkey

Tweet This morning I boarded a bus in Izmit to cross a continent* to walk past Çırağan Palas where there was no one on the street save for a few couples and men pushing carts, where after leaving Beşiktaş only a block or two down the road on my way to Ortaköy there was a fire […]

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