Carolyn Marks Blackwood, Cloud Series, No 4.
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Il bianco mantello - The white mantle (by carlotardani)
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I have been looking for ideas for an annual report that I’m working on for a non-profit. This is among the most awesome examples I’ve come across and it’s from 1955.
Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet, provides some great writing advice for writers: “One thing I think that writers can try to do is understand how they read. When you pick up a book and half way through the first page you’re not interested, what is it that’s failing to grab your attention? What is it that’s missing? What is it exactly that bores you? And then in turn when you write, are you doing any of those things yourself?”
Here’s the Yes, Poetry with my poem!
The December issue is now online for a free download here!
Contributor’s Notes
Charles Bassey lives in Abuja, Nigeria, where he works full-time with a financial services regulatory agency and writes part-time. As a creative writer with the sociological imagination, he stares at life…
All right, the producer of NPR’s Morning Edition got in touch with me on twitter and asked me to draw their hosts in the vein of my previous drawings. Cue my standard introduction for this feature:
As a comic book artist, I listen to a lot of podcasts while I draw. I can’t help but build a…