Accidental Miracles

Writers daily Dive strikes the match that lights the fire under your ass! Join our live writing salon weekdays at 1:00 on Zoom. We meet. We chat. We mute. We write in silence. Its a little bit genius.

Daily visual prompt: double exposure by Li Hui

I love accidental double exposures. I used to play with this back in the early 1980’s at the NYU photo department. In the complete dark of the tiny film room I could remove and re-insert my rolls of film so that I was shooting twice over the same roll. It added a healthy element of chance to the process. I realize now that my first photography teacher at NYU when I was 18 told me the secret to everything. He told me that my accidents would be the best things I would do. He told me that to make sure they happen that I needed to show up regularly because accidents can only be found haphazardly. Soon afterward I pulled a photograph I was working on out of the trash in the photo lab. The photo was mottled and browned and stained with abnormal beauty. I could never have planned it. Trusting the process of showing up regularly for my writing is exactly the same. A roll of the dice, daily. Letting go of thinking I know how things should go is a skill that can be practiced. We do it at Writers daily Dive by just getting to the Zoom space. We show up regularly so that we can find the miracles.

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Join me at my Writers daily Dive for one hour of focus during the chaos of the day. We are practicing serious self-compassion by showing up even on dark days. We meet on Zoom at 1:00 pm, EST. We leave our cameras on so it feels less lonely. We wrap up at 2:00. Those who are onto something just continue writing. Those who want to check in can chat.

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Think of Writers Daily Dive as a safe landing place. We keep it a little loose. It doesn’t have to be stressful. You could use it as a silent place to think or meditate. But if you do want to write, you can use these images as prompts. I love writing from images. It gives me a structure. Write only what I can see. It's a great exercise for those of us who get lost in out heady thoughts - to stay in the image at all costs.

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Please also read : A Suitable Vessel. This is where you can read installments from Ghost Chapters From The Green Books, about life in the aftermath of my husband’s death in 2020.

Ghost Chapters From The Green Books, #4

Also on offer is a running writers group that has been meeting in East Hampton for 9 years! We now meet on Zoom. It’s called the Writers Collective Out East. We write in-group for 10 minutes, and then give feedback to members on their submitted pieces of writing. We meet every Wednesday at 6:30 PM, EST.