by Cheryl Pallant | Nov 13, 2012 | book business, creativity, S. Korea
at Haeinsa Temple, S. Korea How would you characterize your relationship to your writing? Stressful? Hopeful? Judgmental? When you sit down to write, do you greet the blank page with welcome or ambivalence? How about revering every word, every pause and edit, every...
by Cheryl Pallant | Sep 7, 2012 | creative writing, creativity, poetry
A favorite writing spot: VMFA For the second year, I’ve agreed to organize Richmond’s 100 Thousand Poets for Change. As of this writing, venues in 700 cities and 110 countries, in such far away places as Cairo Egypt, Port Au Prince Haiti, and Ulanbaataar Mongolia, are...
by Cheryl Pallant | May 7, 2012 | anagram poetry, creative writing, creativity
Playing Anagram with my Name or Manage A Mantra Implying Why all chant reply haply rant cell yell arch plant yell chart plan clap thrall yen clap rally then car hall plenty racy plant hell a plant hell cry a rap lynch tell cant rally help can thrall yelp can partly...
by Cheryl Pallant | Jan 19, 2012 | body awareness, creativity, dance, writing
During college, my modern dance teacher Carmen Beuchat continually challenged my comfort level. In class, she’d urge me to reach toward the horizon of my limits. Straighter torso, she’d say. Hip closer to a classmate’s. More energy. I squirmed. Daily. Unfamiliar...
by Cheryl Pallant | Aug 9, 2011 | creative writing, power of intention, writer's block
You’ve got to write. You want to write. For unknown reasons, the words shy away from the page. Such obstinate fellows! Increasingly their absence and the wait for their arrival irritates you. You begin to wonder what is wrong with yourself. This train of thought...
