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...

Questioner: How do you know what to write? Wordswimmer: You don't know before you begin. Q: Don't you plan ahead? W: Sometimes. But ...

There's something about grasping this pen, holding it in my hand,  that calms my mind, something about waking each morning  and opening ...

Every time you  sit down to write  it's like standing  at the edge of a cliff and you never know  how you'll make it across  the aby...

For my current project I’m re-reading the opening lines again and again, and revising, then re -revising. With each draft I go a little fur...

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...

Each morning I set aside  a half-hour to write these pages. It's the time of day I love-- the silence of early morning,  the blank pages...

The way ink smudges before it dries the way letters form  on the page the way a simple line can convey meaning the way words sound like your...

Why do I write? Trying to answer that question is like trying to define love. How do you put a feeling into words? Why do you love anything?...

There are some days when writing can feel like we're swimming against the current, and we have to acknowledge we aren't able to make...

Where do words come from? The air,  like specks of dust floating free, unseen, until they fall onto the page? The heart,  flowing through  y...

Writing teacher and coach Jena Schwartz lives in Amherst, Massachusetts with her kids, Aviva and Pearl, her beautiful wife, Mani, and the...

So you sit waiting, listening to the silence of early morning, and in the silence you can hear your breath, and in your breath you can fin...