Category Archives: the creative process

Writing Advice

The best advice I know to give is to learn to put up with boredom and frustration. You have to sit through the dull times when nothing’s coming and stay there, for however much time you’ve given yourself to write, … Continue reading →

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Day 19 — NaPoWriMo

Those two magical lines •
perfect, perfectly formed •
exquisite image, exact words… Continue reading →

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Einstein, Meet Kooser (from the quote box)

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. — Albert Einstein Continue reading →

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From the Quote Box – R. Emerson

In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading →

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What to Write about? NaPoWriMo and Haiku Day

leave out all the words •
that the readers can fill in •
show them some new things. Continue reading →

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