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Rough Draft #4 FEARSOME

Sherry December 21, 2024 April 28, 2025Poetry, ROUGH DRAFTS January 2017, poetry 0

I have recently had document losses because my computer quit and needed to be rebooted. Unfortunately, it seems, only what was stored in icloud was recovered, which wasn’t much. Luckily, many of my files were on the Desktop, which was recovered. It’s all a mystery to me. But here is …

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ROUGH DRAFT #3

Sherry August 30, 2024 August 30, 2024ROUGH DRAFTS, Septuagenarian writing prompts 0

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE HUMAN AND ALIVE (prompt taken from a friend’s webinar) I can’t answer that question I can only respond to what it is for me, not what it means. And I can only respond from a septuagenarian perspective knowing at any other age I would …

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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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    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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