Jun 24, 2015 | Writing and Rewriting
“Writers don’t write from experience, though many are resistant to admit that they don’t. I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.” — Nikki...
Jun 11, 2015 | Writing and Rewriting
I’m writing a novel. Actually, I finished writing this novel quite some time ago. Now I’m revising. The work of revising seems to take everything out of me, which is why I seldom show up on this blog. Between writing and revising, thinking about the...
Apr 10, 2015 | Writing and Rewriting
“Only death, his own, should prevent a playwright from considering yet one more revision to his script.” — Oscar Wilde
Jan 6, 2015 | Writing and Rewriting
Near the end of last year, I spent some time reading my 2014 journal, flagging those entries that were a record of break-through and “ah-ha” moments. One of those moments came on a December evening when I sat with my guitar and started singing — playing songs I had...
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