wordswimmer

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...

Every time we sit down to write, we must make a choice. Do we play it safe or do we take a risk? Do we create a story that lets u...

In Down the Great Unknown , Edward Dolnick writes about John Wesley Powell and his crew of nine men whose exploration in 1869 took them down...

Two writers--Jack O'Rourke and J. Irvin Kuns--were kind enough to share their thoughts on risk-taking in response to my comments about t...

Staring down at a blank page on some mornings can feel like standing on the edge of a high-diving board afraid to leap into the unknown. Fro...