wordswimmer

You need to listen closely to what’s in your heart even if you can’t always understand the language it’s speaking. You can feel it be...

Prompts for poems can come from anywhere. An unexpected letter from a college friend that triggers a memory. A slant of light that rekindles...

When you’re thinking about your story’s structure—the way a story unfolds and why it’s so compelling —it can help to watch movies, not only ...

My words--and my heart--feel frozen. They froze this past month as I watched multiple videos of Americans shooting Americans on American soi...

I remember sitting at my desk years ago, alone in my college dorm room, staring at the typewriter’s unmoving keys beneath my fingers and the...