wordswimmer

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

After thinking about a story for years and trying to write it for more years than I care to count, I had a break through a few months ago a...

It happens when you least expect it. You take a turn down a road that looks promising and before you realize what’s happening the tires s...

It can prove mystifying when someone–a teacher, another writer, a close friend or confidant–advises you to “trust your intuition” when you’r...