wordswimmer

Every morning I come into my office, sit down at my desk, record the date and time, and for thirty minutes, sometimes longer,  I open my jou...

A memoir is built on memories—memoire is the French word for memory, after all, but also the word for memorandum or record—and, since a memo...

If you think about writing as a flow—a flow of words, a flow of thoughts and images, a flow of consecutive days that you can sit down and wr...

The first truth of writing: You don't know anything. The second truth of writing: You know more than you think. The third truth of...

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. ...

If you read only one book about the writing process this year, I hope you'll consider John McPhee's Draft No. 4: On the Writing Proc...