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Novel Beginnings 1st Chapter Contest is closed. Watch for results in July.
Meet
Andrea Heiberg, and read her winning poem, "The Grass is Green."
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April 13, 2013 Shaping Clay I tried something new today. Mom and I went to The Painted Pot and sat behind a
pottery wheel to make a bowl. She took to it like a duck takes to water. Me, not so much. I pushed too hard with my fingers
at times, creating a lopsided, spinning lump. Then I didn't push hard enough and couldn't balance out the clay.
I was disappointed with myself because I wasn't
an instant "success." No matter that I liked getting my hands in the clay, the feel of it. The fact that I
couldn't do it perfectly took my focus away from the joy in the doing. Fortunately, a young woman named Abby helped me shape
the clay, talked me through the rough parts, showed me how to make a bowl.
Writing can be like that. Sometimes
stories can be lopsided clay in need of reshaping. You need guidance, someone to help you form the lumpy, bumpy
story parts and create something beautiful, a work of art.
Or maybe just a bowl.
Either way, we're
here to help you shape your words, your voice. Let us help you write a wonderful story.
Amy
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The Grass
is Green
"and whatever sky
it's blue,
I tell you
because
I saw it . . ."
Read
“The Grass is Green” by Andrea Heiberg, winner of the Burning the Midnight Oil Poetry Contest. ________________________________
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