wordswimmer

You sit waiting  for your heart to open, to reveal the words  you need to write, like waiting for a blossom  to push its green shoots up  ou...

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...

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...

When I was much younger and beginning my studies as a graduate student in the newly designed MFA Writing for Children program at Vermon...

It’s the end of the year and who can count how many hours we’ve sat at our desks waiting for words while the minutes passed by and our live...