Welcome Treeleaf Writers!
This space is for anyone who writes, from authors of long and short fiction, to memoirists and journal keepers, to essayists and commentators, to dabblers and the writing-curious. All styles. All skill levels.
As a Sangha, we are connected through Zen specifically and by Buddhism broadly; and while strictly speaking, we have no prescribed subject, may we find the Buddha at the heart of what we write and share.
By way of introduction: I pursued fiction writing as a graduate student and then became a college creative writing instructor to fiction writers and poets. As I look over my work from that period in my life, I see I was already slouching towards Buddhism, although I didn't know it. This movement is something I can only see now, from the vantage point of all that's come after--love, marriage, a career change, cats, travel, the aging of my parents, lost and found friends, the rising moon. This fact, this discovery of self that comes from the act of writing is central to my position here as encourager of this forum: the act of writing can help us understand ourselves. This is why it's important to welcome all skills, all styles, all attempts, all stages of draft and craft.
We can do many things here. I can post writing prompts. We can do flash fiction. Trade memoir excerpts. Coalesce around a theme. Respond in prose to another art form. Write jataka tales. There's so much. But as I've thought about how to engage this space into something vibrant and thriving, it occurs to me that the best way to start is by listening.
Who are you?
What do you write?
What would you like to see here?
With deep bows,
Hensho
satlah
This space is for anyone who writes, from authors of long and short fiction, to memoirists and journal keepers, to essayists and commentators, to dabblers and the writing-curious. All styles. All skill levels.
As a Sangha, we are connected through Zen specifically and by Buddhism broadly; and while strictly speaking, we have no prescribed subject, may we find the Buddha at the heart of what we write and share.
By way of introduction: I pursued fiction writing as a graduate student and then became a college creative writing instructor to fiction writers and poets. As I look over my work from that period in my life, I see I was already slouching towards Buddhism, although I didn't know it. This movement is something I can only see now, from the vantage point of all that's come after--love, marriage, a career change, cats, travel, the aging of my parents, lost and found friends, the rising moon. This fact, this discovery of self that comes from the act of writing is central to my position here as encourager of this forum: the act of writing can help us understand ourselves. This is why it's important to welcome all skills, all styles, all attempts, all stages of draft and craft.
We can do many things here. I can post writing prompts. We can do flash fiction. Trade memoir excerpts. Coalesce around a theme. Respond in prose to another art form. Write jataka tales. There's so much. But as I've thought about how to engage this space into something vibrant and thriving, it occurs to me that the best way to start is by listening.
Who are you?
What do you write?
What would you like to see here?
With deep bows,
Hensho
satlah
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