wordswimmer

If you want your words to sing on the page you need to keep harmonizing,  keep testing different notes, trying different combinations of ...

How do you know when you're finished revising your manuscript? After the second or third pass, it's easy to believe that you're ...

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

Over the course of a lifetime—from the time as children when a parent or adult begins reading books aloud to us to the time when we can...

I started a new project in February, and I found myself surprised -- the way I'm always surprised when an idea pops into my head -- that...

The other day I picked up John LeCarre’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy , his best-selling novel about spies and espionage during the Cold Wa...

Can you accept imperfection? Can you accept that you'll need to revise again and again (and still again), that the word you're lo...