“I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.” Robert Frost I haven’t enjoyed writing a poem in a while. Frost has always been a great inspiration when it comes to poetry for me. This quote is just the tippity tip of the iceberg when it comes toContinue reading “Robert Frost Inspo”
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Write to Thrive; Your Readers Will Thank You
“To survive, you must tell stories.” –Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before And this doesn’t just go for writers. Let’s take it a step further and say, “Write to thrive!” We want our writing to add to our lives. We don’t want to be tossed all over the place by our writing. WeContinue reading “Write to Thrive; Your Readers Will Thank You”
Vibe Therapy
This is one of my most favorite songs when I get hit hard with the feels “Come All You Weary” by Thrice Come all you weary with your heavy loadsLay down your burdens, find rest for your souls‘Cause my yoke is easy and my burden is kindI’ll take yours upon me and you can takeContinue reading “Vibe Therapy”
Playing Small
There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” -Nelson Mandela I did it. I doubled up and spent a couple of years working a “normal” job. If there was any job I could ask for, it wouldContinue reading “Playing Small”
Slow Mornings
I have decided I want us to have slow mornings. I want us to sit in the sun and enjoy a cup of joe. I want us to be able to take time to check in with ourselves and the Good Lord. And I want us to move toward productivity with a clear and confidentContinue reading “Slow Mornings”
Connection
“In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don’t write about connection that often but I do appreciate the idea that so much of our world is connected. I have been thinking aboutContinue reading “Connection”
The Forces of My Writing
The forces of my writing -the power of my words -could swallow me whole if I let them. But I’ve learned to taper them. Tape them to walls and use them to patch holes in my heart and my thighs and the small of my back -the place he never brushed to gently guide meContinue reading “The Forces of My Writing”
About Reading and Writing
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” – Robert Frost My first question, is there such thing as too many surprises? I like surprises, but I also like to know things. I do appreciate a good surprise cry in a story. oh. IContinue reading “About Reading and Writing”
James Baldwin
“One writes out of one thing only—one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.” — James Baldwin, Notes ofContinue reading “James Baldwin”
George R.R. Martin on Types of Writers
“I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they’re going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kindContinue reading “George R.R. Martin on Types of Writers”
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