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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

One of the things you need to learn about writing is how to trust the process, to trust yourself, your imagination, to accept whatever image...

Are you willing to sit and wait for a while? Are you prepared to sit and wait for more than a few hours a day, more...

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...

For years I’ve held an image in my head of a plant growing toward the light as a way of understanding the writing process. It was an ...

Each stroke that you take in the water propels you forward into the unknown, and all you have to guide you is your instinct, a sense of wher...