Sitting down to write something new, facing the blank journal paper blinking computer screen I often just write. I create a stream of consciousness word dump that may begin to take form and show me what I need to be writing about in that moment. At other times there is […]
Writing is by its nature a solitary pursuit. One sits with one’s thoughts, possibly hammering away at a piece of stone, maybe pushing grains of sand together on a low tide shore until something begins to take form. Then comes the edit, the trim, the shape and reshape, and the […]
Struggling to write one day last week my mind found myself thinking of a Jayne Cortez poem, “You Know:” “You know I sure would like to write a blues you know a nice long blues you know a […]
Writing for the web, particularly writing blogs, has always frustrated me. The writing needs to be fast, glib, entertaining; an easy read and, if possible, say something of value. As writers go, I am a relatively fast wordsmith. That is to say I can get a gush of words on […]
My website is not yet complete, but I really needed to start my blog. So welcome and thank you for braving the “under construction” zone! This is a writer’s website and as such most of my blogs will have something to do with writing. I am a multi-genre writer, most […]
