NPR’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook had a fun show this week on memorizing poetry. You can listen to the podcast here or on iTunes. Check it out for some insightful thoughts on memorizing poetry!

Do you memorize poetry?

Everyone has their own creative process. You are well aware of the ways in which you “get it down on paper,” but how do other people do what they do?

Hit and Run Magazine has the photographic evidence of writers’ work, as it gets done and the evidence is fascinating. Notes scribbled in tiny handwriting on receipts, doodles and sketches in the margins of notebooks, a desk complete with a stiff drink and a pack of cigarettes–each photo a little window into the behind the scenes work that goes into being a writer of any kind.

I encourage everyone to share their own images of creativity-in-process here and, better yet, you can share images with Hit and Run:

It’s that time again. Time for you to submit. Dig in the closet. Look under the couch. Check the trash. Somewhere, you’ve got some notes for a poem, story, novel, or bank robbery scheme.

1) Type “Submission” in the subject line. 2) Insert a brief bio in the body of the message. 3) Attach a jpg or gif image of your submission. 4) Include a title for your piece. 5) Email to hitandrunmag@aol.com.

Five fingers: five steps.

There are approximately 650,000 publications to which you can send completed stories and poems.This is not one of them.

If camera/scanner challenged, some kid will do it for next to, but not, nothing.

“Those who do not do are condemned to repeat what they didn’t do.” ~ Anonymous

Paul A. Toth
Editor

They can be found at hitandrunmagazine.blogspot.com
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Yes, you can read the entire text of the 2009 edition of Bozeman’s favorite chain-writing exercise, and you can read that text RIGHT HERE on the Consortium of the Creative Nudge. Just visit the Foolish Words 2009 page at http://foolish.creativenudge.org and start reading.

I’ll give a prize to anyone who can untangle all the plot lines that got thrown into the story this year. And that prize will be $1 million imaginary dollars that will be instantly transferred from my imaginary Swiss bank account to your imaginary Swiss bank account by imaginary Swiss bankers at imaginary computers wearing imaginary European-style suits and drinking imaginary cappuccinos.