wordswimmer

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

What do you do when you run  out of words  and all your ideas  have dried up? I keep writing anyway,  afraid to stop on the chance I may fin...

Where do you go  from here? How do you  know which path to take? What if you can't see a path  yet? How do you know how to carve a new o...

Some days words come unbidden sailing onto the page like tiny boats blown by the wind. Some days the page remains blank, empty, like a cloud...

Each morning you reach for words  without knowing where to look  like a blind man pawing the air  hoping to find something to hold onto, som...

Where do you go to find words?  Is there a store you can drive to in the mall and  purchase them by the dozen? Or is it like going to a deli...

  The truth is in the details. - Stephen King The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow, 2013)  is the kind of book that pulls y...

What will you write about in the days ahead? The future is unknown blank pages waiting to be filled. You can't know ahead of tim...

Excerpts from a recent journal entry: Up early -- 5:45 am. Still groggy from sleep. Yesterday I started typing the historical fiction no...