MeetingTheBar: Beautiful Solitude–
Don’t know how it is for you, but I need my little escapes, the time gaps in between where I …
Category Archives: Meeting the Bar: Critique and Craft
dVerse Meeting the Bar: Symbolism
Many poets are prone to dabbling in symbolism—perhaps because we tend to be right-brained, intuitive. Often, when I’m revising my …
Meeting the Bar–Writing Characters
When speaking of character development, most of us probably think about its application to fiction or creative non-fiction. As a …
Meeting the Bar: Impressionistic writing
In Amsterdam last week, I was visiting an exhibition about impressionism, featuring paintings by Monet, Renoir and Pissarro. The …
Balance–dVerse Meeting the Bar
One of the tools that visual artists turn to when creating their compositions—whatever their medium of choice—is balance. In art, …
