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ROUGH DRAFT #2

Sherry April 19, 2024 April 19, 2024Assignments, Poetry, ROUGH DRAFTS, Words of Wisdom creative writing, Minnesota Author, poetry, process of writing 0

Again, I believe I want to retire from writing. I don’t intentionally write EXCEPT again a friend said write. Write about why you have lost your passion, your motivation, and why you are bored. And why you don’t know what to do with your septuagenarian moment in life. So, again, …

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Rough Draft #1

Sherry April 19, 2024 April 19, 2024Assignments, Poetry, ROUGH DRAFTS, Words of Wisdom creative writing, Minnesota Author, poetry, Rough Drafts, Septuagenarian 0

Last year I decided I wanted to retire. I no longer wanted to write, to be a writer. This year 2024, I dabbled in painting, water colors-and collage. But writing haunts me. A friend said imagine your life’s narrative, create it, write it. And I did. It’s a rough draft …

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GUEST WRITER: notes from July 21, 2023 reading

Sherry July 26, 2023 July 26, 2023Reading Events and Other News, The Art of Writing, Words of Wisdom creative writing, guest writer, poetry 0

Reading THE COFFEE SHOP NE July 21, 2023 Intro: I Want Cake (bio) [see previous post of this poem] 1. There’s something about writing, about being a writer, you can’t retire from it, it’s got a hold on you despite the fact you might “want cake.” Once a writer always …

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I WANT CAKE (I WANT TO RETIRE)

Sherry December 10, 2022 December 10, 2022Septuagenarian, Words of Wisdom creative writing, Loving Healing Modern History Press, retirement 0

January 2023 I will be 75 years old. I’ve been writing since second grade. Fifth grade poetry club. Junior high editor of a mimeographed journal. High school creative writing club. College took the most serious turn when I wanted to read books about me, while at the same time being …

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    Sherry Quan Lee approaches writing as a community resource and as culturally based art of an ordinary everyday practical aesthetic. Lee is a Community Instructor at Metropolitan State University (Intro to Creative Writing, Advanced Creative Writing), and has taught at Intermedia Arts, and the Loft Literary Center. She is the author of A Little Mixed Up, Guild Press, 1982 (second printing), Chinese Blackbird, a memoir in verse, published 2002 by the Asian American Renaissance, republished 2008 by Loving Healing Press, and How to Write a Suicide Note: serial essays that saved a woman’s life, Loving Healing Press, 2008.
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