wordswimmer

A morning of starts and stops of false beginnings of missteps trying to find my footing on a path I can’t see working through silence hoping...

Thanks to the Divine Source of words where all words begin their journey into the world. Thanks for the desire to write and for the imagina...

You need to listen closely to what’s in your heart even if you can’t always understand the language it’s speaking. You can feel it be...

I remember sitting at my desk years ago, alone in my college dorm room, staring at the typewriter’s unmoving keys beneath my fingers and the...

How trust works: you take a deep breath pick a pen open your journal and begin writing not knowing what you'll discover before you put y...

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 ...

Do you ever wonder what keeps drawing you  back to the page each morning--day after day,  month after month, year after year? Or why you ret...

After all these years it’s still a mystery how words flow from some invisible source through my arm  to the pen in my hand the ink flowi...

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 ...

You need to arrange your life so that being able to write is your first priority (and being able to read your second). You need to set aside...

You can't know how or why you can only know what you know the feel of the pen in your hand the scrape of the nib on paper the smoothness...

Full steam ahead you mustn't look back no glancing over your shoulder at the pages you've written or the days that came before this ...

Every morning I sit down  at my desk not knowing  what I'll write,  not knowing if  I'll find the words to write anything at all. I ...

Listening for words waiting for a voice to whisper in my ear hoping I'll recognize it when I hear it-- if I hear it-- not knowing what t...

You reach a point when your mind  goes blank  like a blackboard  that's been erased,  only chalk dust  clinging  to the board  but no wo...