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Abigail Adams with Inspiration for Your Blogging, Writing & Creativity - A Quote, Writing Prompts & More

 

How does this image inspire your writing? What do you see? What memories does it invoke?

 Each day, a quote, an image, several questions and a writing prompt are offered to you to use for  Your Blogging, Writing & Creative Inspiration in order to increase your creative thinking as well as your personal and soulful  development.

 

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Quote: "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen."

Abigail Adams

I looked up "vent" in the way Abigail Adams meant it. Here is the definition:

the expression or release of a strong emotion, energy, etc.

How often do you allow yourself to "vent" on the page?

What would happen if you gave yourself permission to "vent" about the good stuff, not only the whiney stuff?

Think about recent conversations with others. When was the last time someone you knew vented to you negatively? What was the story?

How about the last time someone you knew vented to you positively and passionately? What was the story?

Lists:

Make a list of 5 to 10 things you are looking forward to in the next twelve months. If you can't think of that many, use your imagination and perhaps set some intentions. Don't limit yourself just let it go!

Imagine, for a moment, you are a tea kettle that needs to vent about 3 to 5 experiences in the last twelve months.

Now, make a list of those three to five experiences. If you can't come up with any ideas, just tuck the tea kettle thought in the back of your mind and before you go to sleep ask yourself again. When you wake up (or as soon as you are sitting in a place where you are able), write down whatever flows off your fingers.

Traditional Writing Prompt:

If I allowed myself to vent completely about what I want to vent about, it would sound something like this:

Choose one of the items off your list above and write about it as if it has happened and you are reporting back to your best friend. Allow yourself to imagine it with all your senses and emotions. Vent vent vent vent vent in your biggest most luxuious way.

Image Inspiration

 

Spend three to five minutes simply gazing at the photo. Next, free flow write for at least five minutes about what you noticed, felt, recognized in yourself while gazing at the photo.

 

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Gaze at the image while meditating on one of the questions or prompts. Next, free flow write for five minutes without forethought or planning.

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One helpful strategy is to read the quote, questions, prompt and list and not to "take them on" all at once, but to allow them to simmer in the back of your mind throughout the day. Sure, you may "write" one immediately, but don't call it "done" until you have allowed your powerful subconscious mind to bring up some unexpected responses for your conscious mind to create within.

Remember, though - there are no rights and wrongs, there is only showing up for your life and your creativity. Brava for being here!! 

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Why You Should Love Your Literary Grannies: Meet Harriet Monroe

 

Love Your Literary Grannies: Today, we feature a tiny snippet about Harriet Monroe!

The name “Harriet Monroe” probably means nothing to you.

 

I knew I needed to feature her as a literary granny after reading her name over and over again and then realizing the impact she had on the rising popularity of new poetry, especially new and cutting edge poetry, is unmatched by anyone of either gender.

Harriet Monroe was the founding editor of Poetry Magazine. In a time of slumping subscriptions, her magazine continues to thrive and  recently celebrated its 100^th anniversary.

Miss Monroe worked for two years with no salary and continued to work during those two years as an art critic for the Chicago Tribune. When her work load became too heavy, she spent many years working  for a minimal salary simply because she felt her work – and the importance of sharing poetic voices which might not have been heard without Poetry Magazine was of utmost importance.

I didn’t want to write a profile without reading more in depth of her life.

Harriet Monroe - today's lovely literary granny early in her career.

 

I discovered she wrote an autobiography. I discovered it was out of print. I discovered it on a used book website. I bought a first edition for a very low price and was rarely as excited to get a book in the mail as I was for this one.

I am reading it slowly, many parts aloud, so I can get a feeling for the sound of her voice. There are few activities I enjoy as much as reading aloud and being read to, aloud. I don’t want to wait to introduce her to you, my dear readers. Just know there will be more coming in the future.

She was a poet herself, but her greatest contribution to the literary world was her magazine.

Laura Ingram in the Dictionary of Literary Biography wrote this of Miss Monroe’s legacy: "The abundant richness of this movement might well have been less spectacular without the encouragement and vitality which Poetry offered in those years when young poets were seeking to break the bonds of traditionalism and to create a new poetic voice for the modern age."

Her editorial policy was quoted in the second edition: “"Open Door will be the policy of this magazine—may the great poet we are looking for never find it shut, or half-shut, against his ample genius! To this end the editors . . . desire to print the best English verse which is being written today, regardless of where, by whom, or under what theory of art it is written."

Pages from the First Volume of "Poetry" magazine

 

Without Harriet Monroe, poetry was dwindling in popularity. I am sure it would delight her to see poetry continues to be alive and well and hopefully will become even more alive and even more well known as we get to know our literary grannies, poetic and prosody and all other forms of writing as well.

I’ve barely started her memoir and yesterday I giggled about her correspondence with Robert Louis Stevenson, the author of Treasure Island and others. Usually I am all about literary grannies in April during A to Z, but since I got sidetracked then, I’m writing some additional profiles this July.

It’s important we know who came before us in the writing world – for all creative people, including you!

Enjoy this meandering throughout July – please let me know of any Grannies I should research and build a relationship with as well. I’m grateful, always, for your input.

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Literary Granny Julia Ward Howe: I'm Not Exactly Her Namesake AND I'll Claim Her

It would be very obvious to say I was named for my Aunt Julie, but that is not exactly directly the truth. She was actually named Juliet and my parents almost didn’t name me Julie for fear I would get teased because of the character Julie Jordan in the musical Carousel.  I didn’t get teased as a child, but when I was younger I regularly got sung to by teachers with the opening line of the song.

Historically and literarily speaking, most Julies were Julia or Juliette or Juliet I suppose.

I am glad to claim Julia Ward Howe as a Julie in my literary lineage.

She was known mostly for her song, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, but besides this

Literary Granny Julia Ward Howe

accomplishment she was a poet, abolitionist, and activist. She also wrote plays and creative non-fiction, including a work about Margaret Fuller, another woman I claim in my literary lineage.

The story of Battle Hymn of the Republic goes like this: Mrs. Howe was visiting, along with the Secretary of War for the Union, some of the army camps. The soldiers were busily singing “John Brown’s Body” and that tune must have entered into her poet’s mind because she was awakened with the first stanza of the famous poem written and complete in her mind.

By the time dawn arrived, the entire poem had been written by candlelightand started its life as a song sung to the tune of John Brown’s Body.

Mine eyes have seen the glory
of the coming of the lord,
He is trampling out the vintage
where the grapes of wrath are stored,
He hath loosed his fateful lightning
of His terrible swift sword,
His truth is marching on

Glory! Glory ! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah
Glory! Glory ! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on

I have seen Him in the watch fires
of a hundred circling camps,
They have builded Him an altar
in the evening dews and damps,
I can read his righteous sentence
in the dim and daring lamps,
His day is marching on

Glory! Glory ! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah
Glory! Glory ! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on

I have read a fiery Gospel
writ in burnished rows of steel,
"As ye deal with My contemners
so with you My grace shall deal,"
Let the Hero born of woman
crush the serpent with His heel,
Since God is marching on

Glory! Glory ! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah
Glory! Glory ! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on

He has sounded forth the trumpet
that shall never call retreat,
He is sitting out the hearts of men
before His judgment seat,
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him!
Be jubilant, my feet,
Our God is marching on

Glory! Glory ! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah
Glory! Glory ! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on


The following stanzas are presented
as sung by The Mormon Tabernacle Choir in 1960

In the beauty of the lilies
Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in his bosom
that transfigures you and me,
As He died to make men holy
let us live to make men free,
His truth is marching on

Glory! Glory ! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah
Glory! Glory ! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on

He is coming like the glory
of the morning on the wave,
He is wisdom to the mighty
He is honor to the brave,
So the world shall be His footstool
and the soul of wrong His slave,
Our God is marching on

Glory! Glory ! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah
Glory! Glory ! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on

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Thank you, Florence & Annie - Women Standing Together for a Cause

Three women are in this photo, each with a definitive purpose.

Florence & Annie: Women Standing Together for a Cause

The woman in the center was Annie. She was jailed more than nine times for such things as picketing – as she was doing here – and demonstrating on our behalf. She spent an incredible sixty days in Occoquan Workhouse in August-September 1917 for picketing.

In other words, she held up a “propaganda sign” reading something like these did:

The woman on the left, whose unseen face appears to be reassuring and confirming to Annie to know what they are standing for was right and worthy, is Florence Youmans of Minnesota.

 The woman wearing white is a policewoman. She is arresting the other two woman, sending them to jail sentences of unknown length at the time. She was doing, I suppose, what she felt was write.

In July of 2013  I participated in the Ultimate Blog Challenge.

I continued with my Literary Grannies series as well as focusing on the history of Women – Standing Together for a Cause. There are many causes women have stood together for over time, but the Suffragists have been exceptionally compelling to me recently.

I hope you enjoy this series and please note, I will still be writing my usual pieces as well.

I hope you’ll continue to appreciate these special series of articles and essays. I appreciate each and every visit.

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Y is for YOU: Literary Grannies (of today AND the future!) from A to Z

What is stopping you? The world is patiently waiting for you to write!

I have been looking forward to writing this entry all month long. April 2013 and the A to Z challenge is almost over. I will miss it, as I did last year, yet I know I have learned a lot and I know (since you have told me) many of you have learned a lot as well.

 If this is your first visit or your forty first visit, you are here at exactly the right time.

Today’s post, after all, is about you.

Fifty years from now, a young writer takes a moment and googles (or its future equivalent) your name to research more about you. Perhaps she is writing a research paper or writing a blog article or maybe a 21^st century style encyclopedia.

You have become a literary granny. Yes, YOU!

Maybe until this moment you never gave it any thought.

How will your words be influential to another generation of readers?

Some of you haven’t even given thought to whether or not your words are influencing anyone. Some of you don’t write for others, only for yourself. Some of you have tried over and over to find your niche, or to write a novel someone will buy or perhaps you are so frightened you have yet to share your first poem with anyone outside of your personal notebook.

Maybe there is a young woman in your life who wants to write but hasn’t started putting words on the page. Perhaps it is your turn to be the encourager of a future literary granny. Time and time again I find writers who knew each other, who came alongside one another to insure the words to continue to be written.

The world is waiting for your words.

This generation and the next and the next are hopeful you will become their literary granny of tomorrow.

All it takes is for you to be willing to write.

Just write.

Just love the world and your words enough to bring your words to life in a form for the future to enjoy and perhaps, just perhaps, learn from as well.

The future world waits, patiently, for you to write your words today.

 

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Tomorrow’s Literary Granny: Zoe Akins

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J is for Judith Sargent Murray: Our Literary Grannies from A to Z

 

Judith Sargent Murray: Essayist, Poet, Playwright, Reformer

Judith Sargent Murray was one of those women who is frequently called “a feminist” because she worked toward equality between women and men, but there wasn’t a name for this yet. She would never call herself a feminist because that might be like one of the Viking Captains calling himself an astronaut.

 She was born to a wealthy and prominent family in Glouchester, Massachusetts family in 1751. Like most families of that time, the girl children were not educated beyond the basics they learned at home. The Sargent brothers are the ones who went to Harvard, but thankfully, her parents were liberal enough to allow Judith to study alongside her brother as she prepped for Harvard and continued alongside him when he came home from school in the Summer months.

This was the beginning of her unwavering belief in the education of girls and women. Her first published essay (under the pen name Constantia) was titled: “Desultory Thoughts of Self-Complacency, Especially in Female Bosoms,” which appeared in 1784. It is, perhaps, a chapter from one of her earliest drafts of the work she published in 1790, On the Equality of the Sexes,  which she reportedly completed its first draft in 1779 but was not ready to have it published at that time.

In addition to the pen name of Constantia, she also wrote under the name “Mr. Vigillius” because she believed he would have a wider readership than Constantia.  “He” wrote fiction which described and illustrated Judith’s views on religion, politics, education and the manners and  customs of the day.

Judith also had literary leanings in poetry, playwriting, fiction. She was well respected, usually, but had a few anti-admirers. The most notable of these was Thomas Paine. He went so far as to lambast her plays and encourage people to not attend. While her plays were somewhat popular, they were never critically acclaimed.

Another little known contribution of Judith Sargent Murray is she was the founder of the first academy for girls in the United States.  She believed in a more rigorous education for women in order for them to assume their responsibilities in the new nation. She and several women founded the academy in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and it began educating young women not only in the area, but from afar. Some of these girls even boarded at the Murray home while being educated.

Long ago she wrote, “I may be accused of enthusiasm; but such is my confidence in THE SEX, that I expect to see our young women forming a new era in female history."

May we continue to form a new era in history of women and men, together.

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Tomorrow’s Literary Granny:Katharine Lee Bates

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Tomorrow’s Literary Granny: Katharine Lee Bates, Writer of “America the Beautiful”, among other things.

C is for Christine de Pizan: Literary Grannies from A to Z

I would like to thank Elizabeth Anne Mitchell whose knowledge of Christine de Pizan helped me to mold my research into a much simpler to understand profile. Hopefully after you read this brief biography you will want to learn more about today's Literary Granny. I have linked to Elizabeth’s blog below where she goes into far more detail and with more interesting tidbits than I have room to do here.

Bear with me a moment: I can’t remember when I first heard the term widow’s succession, but I remember as a little girl in the 60’s at Linden Avenue School in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, we heard about the rare woman who held elected office – well, more like she saved the seat until the next election, never expecting any sort of political clout to come as a result.

In my adulthood, I remember when Sonny Bono (perhaps you only know of hearing about the long ago ‘Sonny and Cher’ died suddenly while a Senator and his wife took over his office when he died. She managed to build quite a career which ended only in the last election. Her “Widow’s Succession” became more than a body to keep the seat warm on behalf of a political party. She leveraged herself into a career from 1998 to 2013.

Christine de Pizan, (born around 1364- died around 1431) our Literary Granny of the Day, had a unique life from her early childhood. Her father, an Italian astrologer who was called to France to serve in the court of Charles V, raised his daughter not as a subservient girl, but as an intellectual as well. He insisted on the stretching of her intellect as well as the cultural norm of womanly arts.

I wonder if her father saw in the stars how the world was going to change for women – but not for centuries?.

I must remind you, this is not in our world today, this was Europe – Italy and France – of the late 14^th and early 15^th century – before “Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” started out as a poet who wrote poetry on demand for the wealthy patrons within the court. Her husband died leaving her responsible financially not only for her children, but also for her mother and her home because she was also a widow.  She more than likely took over his position as court secretary. She had experience as a court copyist seems a natural to take over as secretary, thus doing the “widow’s succession” like Mary Bono Mack did in our lifetime.

It is hazy what exactly happened, but we do know she wrote poetry and then prose for patrons until she amassed enough money to write what she wanted to write: words critical of the court and championing some rather radical ideas of the day such as the education of women, as well as criticism.

She actually had the poise and gumption to debate the great intellectuals of the day. They were all men, naturally, who thought Christine couldn’t possibly think critically or write as she did simply because she was a woman. Nonetheless, she did think and she could write and she had gained financial success so… she did exactly that: she debated and critiqued and supported herself, her mother and her children as well as had a very fulfilling career.  Her work, The City of Ladies,  is still published in several versions today.

I am also sad that I didn’t even know the name Christine de Pizan until I started choosing names for the 2013 A-to-Z Literary Grannies project. That is why it is so important you are reading here today, discovering this granny and realizing there are more women writers out there like her. As writers, we can look back into our lineage as writers in the days when some of our ancestors believed the world was flat and the other ancestors had no concept of life beyond their villages and family homes.

Somewhere in us the spark from Christine de Pizan continues.

This Literary Granny is one I claim with my heart, my pencils, my pens and all my notebooks.

Thank you so much for reading here today. Happy April and A-t0-Zing!

- Read more here, from Elizabeth Mitchell -

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A is for Aphra Behn: Our Literary Grannies from A to Z

Aphra Behn was an eccentric, wise woman who was well ahead of her times of 17^th Century England. She had quite a sumptuous career before she started writing: she was a spy for England but when King Charles II didn’t pay her for her work in Antwerp, she got sent to debtor’s prison.

Not one to feel victimized and “stuck” in prison, Mrs. Behn (she was married for perhaps a year to Mr. Behn before he died) started writing plays while there. Upon her release she officially became the first professional woman writer in English literature. Some may argue other women wrote before her, but she was the first independent woman to write who actually worked in order to make her living.

Aphra’s first literary success was for the plays she wrote.

Her dream, though was to be remembered for her poetry. Instead, her plays and her novella, Oroonoko, are now considered her most important and influential work. Oroonoko  was a story of an enslaved African prince. It is now considered an important beginning to the development of the English novel.

She had quick success in The Forc'd Marriage in1670. It was an immediate success – well loved and made Behn a financially successful woman as well.  It was followed in 1671 by The Amorous Prince. Five of her plays were produced in the next five years 

Her biggest financial success came next, via The Rover which was produced in 1677. Nell Gwyn, the famed actress and mistress to King Charles II, came out of retirement to play the role of the whore, Angelica Bianca ('white angel').  The Duke of York (he later became King James II) was another fan of the play. 

As Aphra continued to write, her plays became more and more sexual in tone and she was even more gossiped about in the papers and in the circles who tittered and gasped yet somehow continued to support her productions. I wonder if they wore costumes so as not to be seen? Women involved in the theater were also rumored to have a second career in the world’s oldest profession, so she was fighting a battle on several sides.

Playwright Robert Gould wrote of Aphra and other women writers "Punk and Poetess agree so Pat,/ You cannot well be This, and not be That.^”  The pious Alexander Pope said, “The stage how loosely does Astræea tread/ Who fairly puts all characters to bed.^”

I don’t think she cared. She just kept writing.

Her book of poetry, Poems Upon Several Occasions, was published in 1684. She continued to become more and more successful until her death .  She was laid to rest after her death on April 16, 1689 in the Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey. I think this would have made the baudy, over the top, fun loving Aphra very, very happy.

Centuries later, Virginia Woolf further eulogized her, writing:

All women together ought to let flowers fall upon
the tomb of Aphra Behn, ...for it was she who earned
them the right to speak their minds.

This post is the first of 26 in a series I will be writing and sharing in April,2013. The challenge is simple and SUCH fun!

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Join the Walk on Washington, Albany & Straight Into History of Yesterday as well as History Being Made

Women Leaders of the Suffrage Movement, Preparing for Walks on Washington, DC and Albany, NY

For some people this is the last week of February. For me it is the countdown to Women’s History Month followed by the countdown to April’s A to Z blog challenge. It is almost like I get two months of women’s history because I focus on women writers during April.

This year’s Women’s History Month is themed like this: “Women Inspiring Innovation Through Imagination: Celebrating Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.”

You might have figured out at first glance, I abhorred this theme.

Then I settled down and thought, “Hey – women have passion in all areas. Just because I don’t equate imagination with these “hard side” arenas doesn’t mean… wait. These areas DO inspire and evoke imagination. They also tend to be more highly dominated by men then the soft side of literature and the humanities.

Naturalist Alice Eastwood

Suddenly, my mind shifted as I thought of my beloved women naturalists across time. They were scientists, first and foremost. To use visual arts terminology, nature and natural studies is their medium and their palette. When I sketch in my nature journal I am combining both skill sets: the scientist and the artist, the naturalist and the curious, the imaginative and the completely alive side of me who has become more observant with age, not less observant.

I know women are thought of less in the world of science, mathematics and engineering. I am one who struggles with the math of my sixth grade son from time-to-time and am reteaching myself statistics, elementary algebra and geometry. We certainly didn’t cover all this material in the sixth grade, but today’s students are on an accelerated course of study in these areas.

It makes sense.

In March, then, my personal Women’s History Course of Study will include some of my perennial favorites like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, but I will also dive deeply into the areas I don’t normally dive into so that I may learn about a greater spectrum of women always in hopes of educating all people about the contribution so many women have made which so often goes unacknowledged.

What will you do to celebrate Women’s History Month?

Perhaps you have never thought about it before – there is nothing wrong with that at all, you are in the majority.

Just consider the idea of learning something this month, of talking about women’s

Raise our Voices, Words and Support of Women Everywhere

contributions including the traditional womanly gifts.  Each and all is valid. There are no more important or less important.

There are, instead, simply glorious women walking side-by-side throughout the past and into today. Men, too, are taking our hands.

I am grateful you are among us.

 

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Writing at Emily Dickinson's House (see the Yellow Home in the background?

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The Thing with Feathers: Inspiration from Emily Dickinson

 

Mixed Media: Emily Dickinson portrait with book page and leaf - 2012, Julie Jordan Scott

The more I get to know Emily Dickinson, the more I love her. I have been an admirer for quite a few years now, but my word-love has flourished since I visited her home in Amherst Massachusetts. Not once, not twice, but three times so far and I think another trip there is long overdue. It isn’t as if travel to Western Massachusetts is convenient: I live in Bakersfield, California, its more that visiting her home is like visiting Mecca.

 

Not only do I visit her home, I take in the stomping grounds of other literary figures.

My visit, though, does not begin until I have paid due homage to Emily.

So many people think of her as an odd recluse who had agoraphobia among other mental illnesses. Perhaps she did fight some disease but we don’t know for certain. There are so many books of research about her poems, I am sure we could find a researcher or several right now who would argue for all sorts of illnesses and quirks.

What I feel most strongly about is this: Emily Dickinson was a one of a kind. She lived with great passion, continually learning via the news of the day from both her family and newspapers and magazines. She enjoyed baking for the neighborhood children – she would lower Ginger cookies in a basket to them as they waited below her bedroom window. She was a botanist – spending hours in

"The Thing with Feathers" inspired by Emily Dickinson's poetry. Mixed Media, Julie Jordan Scott, 2013

the garden drawing flora and communing with the trees.

 

Yes, she sought refuge in solitude.

She spoke to people behind a curtain.

She also corresponded with many and grew friendships via her entertaining letters.

What impresses me most about her is how the mystery surrounding her continues to invite inquiry AND the more I know of her the more I want to know. The more I know of her the more I want to create in her honor. The more I know the more I want to share with others.

I have just finished a piece called “The Thing with Feathers” based on this stanza of hers, one of her famous oft quoted ones:

"Hope" is the thing with feathers—
That perches in the soul—
And sings the tune without the words—
And never stops—at all—

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