TWENTY LINES OR LESS, EVERYDAY.

GENIUS OR NOT.

This community born here on WordPress on October 29, 2011.

Stuck in the quicksand of writer’s block, I needed a writing project with manageable goals to stoke those wonderfully warm right-brain embers.

Through online travels and happenstance being what it is, I happened upon Succour, which further led me to the Genius or Not project, both of which are still standing online, but now defunct.

Thus 20 Lines was born.  Yes, I can write 20 Lines, or less.  Every day.

Hopefully.

Yes, I can.  I can do that.

But I wanted to do more.  I wanted a space where other writers could come and share their work.  A collaborative, nurturing space.  Community.  And because I know some extremely talented photographers, the idea to include their work just seemed a natural fit.

One piece a day.  Keep going.

I welcome anyone that would like a project to bring their work into the public eye, a few pearls at a time, for both exposure and exercise, for fun and as a challenge.

It’s an exercise in discipline.  Join us in this challenge and endeavor and sense of community, and in the end, who knows what we’ll have created together.

Inspiration does exist, but it better find you working.  – Picasso

Cheers!  Happy writing!  Happy photography!  Happy everything.

– Melissa

Our thanks are also due to Harry Mathews for inspiring this project (and others). The results of his own genius or not project are collected in his book Twenty Lines a Day, available here.”

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