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 ...

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...

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...

Even though I don’t live near the sea, there’s a shell path on the side of our front yard, a narrow swath of white seashells that marks th...