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Start Paying Attention

Looking at the world with specificity, compassion and purpose will improve your writing. By Elizabeth Cutright © 2012 The Daily Creative Writer My friend’s toddler has it the “what” stage.  “What’s that momma?” she asks, pointing at, in no particular order, sea shells, abandoned hubcaps, hot chocolate…another toddler’s toy.   The questions, my friend admits, have […]

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Filling Up the Well

Pumpkins, Costumes and Autumn’s Opportunities By Elizabeth Cutright © 2012 The Daily Creative Writer   The  weekend’s almost here, bringing with it the last holiday of summer and the start of one of my favorite season.  I love the Fall.  The idea that it’s time to reap what you’ve sown….time to gather up the fruits […]

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The Expected and the Sublime

Finding Transcendence in Sevilla By Elizabeth Cutright The church bells just chimed in the witching hour, and the buildings across the river are basking in the golden glow of sunset.  It’ the eventide and I’m feeling melancholy – no quite sad, not quite lonely, just sort of poetically alone.  But the night feel pregnant with […]

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Creative Nonfiction

  Wine Tasting in Paso Robles By Elizabeth Cutright It was a last minute decision based on a coastline socked in with fog and the availability of a spacious minivan able to hold up to eight wine loving ladies. We’d all travelled to Cambria – a woodsy artist community on California’s central coast located about […]

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