Hi, Writer. Have you struggled through several well-meaning but short-lived attempts to finish a novel? Do you have a crystal clear creative vision but lack the drive to kick it off? Well, you’re not alone. Most people fail to make it to a first draft, let alone to publication! Until this fall, I had never…
As long as you’re in school, you’re not –really– living in the normal world most adult people live in. I don’t want to say you’re not an adult because there are a lot of mature college students, even married students with children. These people have usually lived in the world already and are making a…
Are you writing in a tradition? What a misguided question. I really don’t think it’s healthy for a writer to consciously constrain herself to “a tradition.” If the words aren’t flowing naturally, the whole thing comes across as self-conscious. We are all embedded in tradition, whether we like it or not. Let the critics and…
“Cloudcover”The cloud looks ripped from a manual—That last blank page of high-gloss white.“I dare you,” it taunts. “Test me to seeIf those printed instructions are right.”Earth is wrinkled, sea roughened by wind, The Cloudcover, faceless, betrays one clue:Though much has been done,There is still more to do. Many creatives find a certain recurring thought running…