wordswimmer

Questioner: How do you know what to write? Wordswimmer: You don't know before you begin. Q: Don't you plan ahead? W: Sometimes. But ...

Do you ever wonder what keeps drawing you  back to the page each morning--day after day,  month after month, year after year? Or why you ret...

I find a kind of rhythm,  even if it feels awkward,  writing every morning,  fifteen, twenty, thirty minutes,  sometimes more,  using a foun...

Each day is like opening a book and finding another poem waiting for you sunlight or clouds on the page shadows or raindrops the sound of th...

You reach a point when your mind  goes blank  like a blackboard  that's been erased,  only chalk dust  clinging  to the board  but no wo...

Each morning I set aside  a half-hour to write these pages. It's the time of day I love-- the silence of early morning,  the blank pages...

The way ink smudges before it dries the way letters form  on the page the way a simple line can convey meaning the way words sound like your...

Each morning you put pen to paper hoping words will appear.  You never know what you'll write and so you write to find out what you'...

Writing teacher and coach Jena Schwartz lives in Amherst, Massachusetts with her kids, Aviva and Pearl, her beautiful wife, Mani, and the...

This morning I lay in bed before the alarm went off wondering about the shape of my day and what would happen if I didn't go to my de...

On some mornings I sit down to write wondering where words come from and, if they come, why they come to me or to anyone else, really. ...