Loyalty to craft, creative delusion regarding a work’s sparkling potential, and fear of failure is the grand trifecta of creative anxiety. Loyalty to craft and creative delusions lead to [...]
It’s your weekly dose of the visual poetry project – the ONLY resource that delivers contemporary American poetry in instant + visual form. This one is near and dear to my heart as it [...]
If you read this blog, you know how I advocate reading, writing, and revising regularly in your genre. I try to do each of these weekly. But last week, I skipped my drafting and revision [...]
ABOUT THIS PROMPT: This week’s prompt honors the emerging theme this week: our histories. It comes from a book about memoir but I think every writer can benefit from it – because who you are [...]
GRASS The living room is overgrown with grass. It has come up around the furniture. It stretches through the dining room, past the swinging door into the kitchen. It extends for miles and miles [...]
Now this little ditty goes right along with this week’s article about inner critics, those misguided cowgirls of the heart. They need some wrangling & a hefty dose of attention but [...]
Hey sparrows. How’s flying lately? Gotten any closer to your dreams? I sure hope so! I’ve been thinking a lot about creative and writer’s block. What it is and what it isn’t. I have [...]
Whew! Poetry workshop with Vievee is OVER! The whole experience was amazing, transformative, surreal — as in . . . it’s like your sitting in your body without sitting in your body [...]
Some words of wisdom from an editor at a major literary journal, overheard by or addressed towards yours truly: 1. Use the FONT that the journal uses in your submissions, even if they [...]
Easy enough. Unless you want to write a good poem. Now that’s just F-BOMB hard. Here are a few things I have learned on my way to writing poems: 1. Jack Kerouac was wrong: first thought is [...]
