I don’t have an addictive personality. Tried but never got addicted to cigarettes, alcohol, or drugs. Addiction is defined as not having control over doing, taking, or using something to the point where it could be harmful to you. I read the passage below by John Updike and it made me think that I doContinue reading “Addictions”
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Remains of (birth)Days
It’s the birthday of novelist Kazuo Ishiguro (1954), best known for haunting, elegiac novels like Remains of the Day about an English butler working in a big house in the years before World War II, which won the Booker Prize and became a good film. My favorite book of his is Never Let Her GoContinue reading “Remains of (birth)Days”
Architects and Gardeneers
What kind of writer are you? “I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they’re going to have, where the wiresContinue reading “Architects and Gardeneers”
Writing About Writing Instead of Writing What I Should Be Writing
Mistakes are the portals of discovery. ~ James Joyce When I started this blog, it was not my intention to write about writing. But that seems to be what I have mostly been doing. If you are a writer, reading about how other writers work is seductive. You are always looking for tips, ideas, secretContinue reading “Writing About Writing Instead of Writing What I Should Be Writing”
How Poets Work
What is the writing process for a poet? Different than that for other writers? Some observations by and about poet Billy Collins.
Spying on Writers
I’m guilty of spying on a fellow writer.
Writing As Therapy
Does bibliotherapy or poetry therapy really help?
How You Write
How do you write? Many possible answers. Some thoughts here from me and Cormac McCarthy.
Word Prompt
Sometimes we need some prompting in order to write or to write something a bit different than our usual paths.
Without Deception
A poem that came from a weekend spent at the Mad River in New Hampshire.
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