I’m back. Thanks for your patience this last week.  Here’s my latest BookPleasure article, “Real Originality.”

There are days I wake up with little enthusiasm for creative writing, a little more than usual these past few months, because I have had so many professional writing and editing projects on my plate.  But lately, I have been … Continue reading →

Between each fruitful phase are long periods of exploration, faltering, learning, and working things out. –Kenneth Noland We often chastise ourselves when we aren’t writing away at our desks every single day.  The prevailing advice is to not let a day pass … Continue reading →

The ultimate concern of the artist is not to paint mountains and clouds and trees but the air between them. – Wang Wei In art sometimes the most poignant part of a painting or drawing is negative space. This is … Continue reading →

“Poems begin by keeping awake,” writes Paul Agostino in Created Writing – Poetry from New Angles.  That’s really how all of our writing should start, with writers being “awake” to whatever it is they are writing, not just slogging through … Continue reading →

I thought I would share a few sites I have been enjoying lately. 72 Best Quotes on Writing The Second Shelf – On the Rules of Literary Fiction for Men and Women Remembering Noral Ephron:  Before All the Hollywood Success C-Span’s … Continue reading →

If your everday life seems poor to you, do not accuse it; accuse yourself, tell yourself you are not poet enough to summon up its riches; since for the creator there is no poverty and no poor or unimportant place. … Continue reading →