Tonight, there is a sudden fright that envelopes me--like a parent waking up in the middle of a cold winter night, hugging her kid tight, bracing him tight like the turning of the world depended on the tightness of her arms around his body, afraid to let him slip into the cold silently, without as much as a willingness to fight falling over into ( Read more... )

We've heard of Writer's Block before, and oftentimes we wish we haven't even been acquainted with the word, nay, the concept. Every famous writer--from Woolf and Hemmingway to King and Grisham, een down to your Average Joe blogger--admits to have experienced it a least once in their writing lives, and every self-confessed writer wouldn't be caught ( Read more... )