wordswimmer

How do you go deep and dive into places that might hurt or feel uncomfortable? How do you feel your way past pain to a new understanding of ...

For my current project I’m re-reading the opening lines again and again, and revising, then re -revising. With each draft I go a little fur...

Writing is Hard I wrote a picture book last year. Revised, revised, had some interest, revised, revised, got to a point where it felt better...

Each day I sit down to write wondering what I'll discover on the page, not knowing what words will come or where they'll lead me.  I...

"Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I ne...

This is how writing works for me, which is going to be different than how it might work for you since each of us holds a pen in our own...

Keep the pen moving. It’s a skill that you need to learn. When you’re first beginning, it’s hard to keep the pen movin...