Jentel Artist Residency: Week 3 (Winding down)

The third week at the Jentel Artist Residency in Wyoming brought about some blocked moments and surges of insecurity on my part. These come-and-go and at a residency you hope to be at your most productive, but can force creativity to flow. But the week progressed better than it started with good food, good people, and good times.

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Jentel Artist Residency: Week 2 (Settling in)

The second week with the Jentel Artist Residency brings more settling in for us residencies and getting closer too achieving those goals we set for ourselves. I have written and edited down thousands of words and dozens of pages and can't believe how productive I've been and focused. Guess I'm not so easily swayed, huh?

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The "Working" Writer

Artists aim to become a working artist--in my case a working writer. While I consider myself a "working" writer this term conflicts with the one posed at the beginning of this paragraph (notice the nice quotation marks).

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