So I’ve looked over the previous 1,496 entries and tagged some, largely so I can find some idea or notion or citation to reuse as fit - teachers are recyclers, to a large degree ( Read more... )

Here I am getting on Bill for his glacial writing pace,
and I’m dry like a dune.

The two-hundred a day discipline is rough, but Goldberg et al says write whatever comes into your head, no editing ( Read more... )

I picked up a DVD featuring interviews with poets, including M.S. Merwin ( Read more... )

When you encounter a man, he can be eloquent, mannered...he may be able to engage you in conversation, may recall a story or poem or excerpt of wisdom that may be of use to you, or as pleasing as a gift ( Read more... )

I ask my students to write daily. Two-hundred words.

The rationale is explored by Goldberg in her Writing Down the Bones and Wild Mind, and by scholars and writing advocates before her ( Read more... )

Belief & Technique for Modern Prose--List of Essentials -- Jack Kerouac ( Read more... )

The waning moon and a high tide, with a sky to match the becalmed water, a sheet of brushed steel. A blue that approached lavendar, could sky and water touch that hue ( Read more... )

Cleaning off the desktop and throwing away old Word files, journal fodder or entries I’d started but abandoned due to losing the thread, the thought, the steam - or realizing it’s total bullshit. Or said much better elsewhere ( Read more... )

"Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing.” --Helen Keller ( Read more... )

The fine Ms.s Collette and Ward came to visit yesterday ( Read more... )