Writer's Toy Chest

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jan 9, 20234 min read

Writer’s Toy: Cut-Up Machine:

Take a finished and fully linear text. Cut it in pieces with a few or single words on each piece. Rearrange the resulting pieces into a...

Gina Greenlee, Author

May 23, 20213 min read

This blog post is an excerpt from my book, The Writer’s Toy Chest. In her book What It Is Lynda calls the Daily Image Journal “noticing...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Aug 2, 20202 min read

Gina’s 2017 Writing Journal: From the walking trail in route to the parking lot, I heard children’s yelps in the playground to my left....

Gina Greenlee, Author

May 3, 20202 min read

“[The residual purpose of art is] purposeless play. This play, however, is an affirmaton of life – not an attempt to bring order out of...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Sep 13, 20182 min read

Toy The Netflix Game Snapshot The Netflix Game nudges you to step outside your genre box. It fertilizes your imagination, which is life’s...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Aug 6, 20182 min read

Writing books takes time. It needn’t take years but it will take months. You are making progress but it will appear subtle. Until you...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jul 28, 20183 min read

Try something you’ve resisted because you didn’t want to “make a fool” of yourself. Yeah, that thing. The local comedy club in my town...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jun 18, 20184 min read

As a little girl I loved to play with clay, paints, dyes and markers. My mother had a fit when she saw our bathtub stained after an...