wordswimmer

My words--and my heart--feel frozen. They froze this past month as I watched multiple videos of Americans shooting Americans on American soi...

When Sarah Aronson was a nine-year-old girl growing up in Pennsylvania, she writes in the Author's Note to her new book, Abzuglutely: Ba...

They say if you want to write you need to write about what hurts the most, so you ask yourself what's causing you the most pain, and the...

Each morning I listen to the silence and hope to hear a voice and words I've never heard before. I listen with my ears but, really, it...

“My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course.” — Graham Greene ...

The first truth of writing: You don't know anything. The second truth of writing: You know more than you think. The third truth of...

As long as your pen or pencil is moving across the page, your fingers typing at the keyboard, your words flowing onto the screen or onto a ...

It's so easy to become disheartened in this business. Even if you're amazingly talented and prolific and have won national awards, a...