wordswimmer

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...

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 think you're listening for words, waiting for them to appear, but really you're listening for a voice, and only when you hear th...

Open a novel, start reading a poem, or begin a short story, and you’ll hear a writer’s voice immediately. Each voice is distinct, the a...

Sometimes I think revising one’s work is all about letting go. Like when you fly a kite and the wind pulls the string...

Are you willing to sit and wait for a while? Are you prepared to sit and wait for more than a few hours a day, more...

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...