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April 27, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Heather won last month’s Story SlamMN! at Kieran’s Irish Pub. The theme was “Courageous.” Without further ado, here are her …
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Category: Interviews
| Tags: courage, courageous, creative practice, interviews, prompts, spoken word, story slam
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April 14, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
All three of the winners at Wordsprout’s Story SlamMN! “Thankful” in March were willing to answer my questions about their …
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Category: Interviews
| Tags: creative practice, interviews, prompts, provoked, spoken word, story slam, storytelling, thankful, YouTube
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March 23, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
In my mailbox Saturday morning was a surprise. I had asked the three winners of Word Sprout’s StorySlamMN! in February …
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Category: Interviews
| Tags: creative practice, frisky, interviews, prompts, spoken word, story slam, storytelling
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March 17, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
In a recent post, I mentioned that I wrote my doctoral dissertation on a fellow named George MacDonald. He was a …
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Category: Uncategorized
| Tags: Alzheimers, courage, faith, family life, George MacDonald, heresy, marriage, prompts, story slam, storytelling, Work in Process
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February 23, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
My morning reading these days is Julia Cameron. In particular, the second book in her Artist’s Way series, The Vein …
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Category: Memoir
| Tags: Artist's Way, creative practice, creativity, Julia Cameron, Lynda Barry, prayer, prompts, spiritual practice, storytelling, thankful, Vein of Gold, What It is, Work in Process, writing
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February 16, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
All of the themes for this year’s StorySlamMN! season are based on feelings. The theme for March is “thankful.” Which is …
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Category: Uncategorized
| Tags: Alfred North Whitehead, Ebenezer Scrooge, Lynda Barry, prompts, quotations, spoken word, story slam, storytelling, thankful, Work in Process
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February 3, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I am most definitely not at the stage of story development I like to be at two days before a …
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Category: Uncategorized
| Tags: editing, frisky, images, prompts, quotations, revising, storytelling, Thoreau, Work in Process, writing
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January 27, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Rain makes corn, corn makes whiskey Whiskey makes my baby, feel a little frisky Back roads are boggin’ up, my …
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| Tags: frisky, images, Lynda Barry, prompts, story slam, storytelling, What It is, Work in Process, writing
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January 20, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Did the frisky puppy in last week’s post, or the quotation from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the relationship between …
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| Tags: frisky, Luke Bryan, music videos, prompts, quotations, rain, storytelling, Work in Process, YouTube
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January 13, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Ok, so this isn’t exactly the start of the new year. But it is my first blog post in 2014. …
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Category: Uncategorized
| Tags: blogging, frisky, prompts, quotations, story slam, storytelling, Work in Process, writing