wordswimmer

You sit waiting  for your heart to open, to reveal the words  you need to write, like waiting for a blossom  to push its green shoots up  ou...

Before you put pen to paper you listen for a voice, for words,  for something-- a sound, an image, anything-- but hear nothing  except silen...

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...

The blank page is waiting. All you hear is silence. No words, yet. Try not to panic. Try not to think OMG, I'll never write anything. Tr...

The mysterious rhythm of words-- how they arrive on the tip of your pen one moment and are gone the next how they flow onto the page on some...

You need to sit listening to the silence,  staring at the blank page,  waiting for words to come,  for letters to form beneath your pen. You...

If you don’t follow the words when they come, if you fail to pay attention or if you think you can find them later   or if you make the mist...

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...

Listening for words waiting for a voice to whisper in my ear hoping I'll recognize it when I hear it-- if I hear it-- not knowing what t...

Each morning I listen to the silence and hope to hear a voice and words I've never heard before. I listen with my ears but, really, it...

You hear a voice inside your head, Often, it's just a whisper, barely a sound at all. But, still, you can hear a voice. And you realize ...

It's that time of year. Close your eyes.  Sleep. Let yourself dream. You need to trust the process  of rebirth, of dormancy,  of silence...

Poems are hiding lately-- playing hide-and-seek over the past few weeks-- unwilling to answer the door when I knock. Are they sleeping or ju...

To find out what you're thinking you sit and write for thirty minutes, each word like a knock on the door and you wonder what's hidd...

Take a moment to breathe. Just wait before touching your pen to the page and let the blankness of the empty journal wash over you li...

Over the years I’ve learned to sit and wait in silence for the words to come, and to sit in silence if they don’t come, and to wait in pati...

Sunday morning sunrise and the world awakens again, the silence broken only by the sound of your pen scratching the surface of ...

Following the writer's path of silence takes skill and patience. It means writing without seeking praise for your work or hoping for suc...