wordswimmer

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...

Every time you  sit down to write  it's like standing  at the edge of a cliff and you never know  how you'll make it across  the aby...

It's always hard to let go, to put down your pen, to take a break. You don't want to lose the connection you make with yourself when...

For my current project I’m re-reading the opening lines again and again, and revising, then re -revising. With each draft I go a little fur...

Every morning I sit down  at my desk not knowing  what I'll write,  not knowing if  I'll find the words to write anything at all. I ...

You don't  have a plan.  Each morning you take a pen  and open your journal  to see what will happen.  It's this not knowing  and yo...

Where are you going and how do you know you're on the right path? What are the signposts  you look for? How can you see a turn coming in...

“My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course.” — Graham Greene ...

What do we discover when we sit down each morning to write in our journal?  What draws us back to the page day after day? And why d...

As long as your pen or pencil is moving across the page, your fingers typing at the keyboard, your words flowing onto the screen or onto a ...

There’s a lake about two miles away from our house, and, after sitting at my desk all day, I felt the need to stretch my legs and decided...

What difference does it make how long it's taken you to reach the place on the page where you stopped work this morning? If you enjoy th...