January 2012
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There is no greater gift in this world than the...
whim·si·cal/ˈ(h)wimzikəl/
Adjective:
Playfully quaint or fanciful, esp. in an appealing and amusing way.
Acting or behaving in a capricious manner.
“When I was a little girl I would marvel at cinema. I once saw Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton in films and it launched my imagination into such a space of infinite beauty that the writer was inevitably born. Something about the cinema -...
May 2011
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words can be a welcome cancer.
when emotions are piled atop the other…
written by Dawn Garcia
Words can often feel like a cancer. They grasp onto your vessels, penetrating your blood, becoming their own life force within you. They - are your conscience. Recently, I sat down to watch Restrepo. A documentary about war. While it took place in the Korengal Valley, this movie was not about location. It was about the process...
April 2011
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Fingertips can set you free.
This post is inspired by an incredible human being who recently passed while reporting on the humanitarian crisis in Libya: Tim Hetherington.
We can’t wait for someone else to make this world better. It has to start with us. Individually, collectively, creatively. Life is a beautiful place but it is fraught with tragic reactions. When I sit down to write, it isn’t because it comes easy - ...
March 2011
4 posts
life in the mind of a writer.
Writers are odd. It just is what it is. Not because we wear funny hats or novelty socks, just because we are the ones that make words mean everything. Words: They are this strangely woven fabric that blends the world together and can, at will, tear the seam away and force it to unravel. Words are magnificent. They thrive, they wither, they can be poisonous daggers, or they can be the more...
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to write a profound adaptation.
“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.” - Oscar Wilde
When I started this adaptation, it was a love affair. I began in 2001. I had read Oscar Wilde’s, The Picture of Dorian Gray because after an encounter with an Englishman while traveling in Dublin, I was told it was a book I must wrap...
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dreamers are essential.
“I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.” - Kahlil Gibran
“Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.” - Oscar Wilde
Who are the dreamers? Dreamers are the ones who dare see past the economic turmoil, the political irresponsibility, the artistic ...
February 2011
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camerimage 2011 - wme
In a room filled with talent and visionaries, I found my pulse was racing, my soul was invigorated, and I could feel the breath of creativity stroking my face. Enlivened by the sheer genius of so much conceptual art brimming, clawing its way to the surface, boiling and awaiting overflow. There is something quite tasty about the focus of those who want to see their mind’s eye be shaken and...
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I live in a world rich with story.
My blog is the gateway to who I am as a writer. Click on this link:
Writeslave. A Blog.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every choice we make is a story. The difference between a writer and you is the writer will tell the story even when it’s so painful they bleed. A writer will expose the cancer, relive the moment their...
January 2011
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follow my blog. →
Please follow my blog. There you will find samples, words, photographs, inspiration.
http://www.writeslave.org/post/2910300456/muse
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hire me.
I have worked as a writer for 14 years. Below is a summary of my skills and what I can do. I love a good challenge and enjoy what I do so let’s work together…
I tend to be very well-versed in marketing and advertising, in that I am keen on making YOU more successful.) I am MAC and PC savvy and I have a strong background in the following:
social and media marketing
media...
never compromise your core, but be willing to see the genius in being asked to do something out of the norm. it’s the intention behind the job. not simply the job itself. I am certain when Oscar Wilde began Dorian Gray, everyone thought he was absurd. nothing absurd in a revelation that exposes the soul of who we really are. honestly, nothing.
dawn garcia - www.writeslave.org
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oscar wilde.
” - I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delecate, exotic fruit. Touch it, and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did it would prove a serious threat to the upper classes, and probably lead ot acts of violence in...
“we change. whether we like it or not. - ralph waldo emerson”
– welcome to the new face of dawngarcia.com
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December 2010
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happy new year.
2010 pretty much festered with most people I know. festered, by the way, is a word in place of another favorite “f” word of mine. I say we just take 2010 and remind it there are much better things to do with time than encourage poor deficits, bad political decisions, social injustice upheavals, art suppression, and censorship.