Category: writing
How do you know you’re a writer? If you wrote today, you’re a writer.
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It’s pretty easy for me to get ensnared in outrage these days. But pragmatism suggests that it makes more sense to choose appropriate emotional responses, rather than react to every little (or big) thing. I’m returning to my morning ritual: starting the day with poetry rather than news. For that, The Poetry Foundation provides an…
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Yesterday, my blog delved into the mysteries of character building in a novel. I went, as I often do to E.M. Forster, who describes it so well in “Aspects of the Novel,” a book published in 1927. My beat-up copy was published in 1955. I think I found it at a used bookstore in the…
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Starting a new writing project is like being dropped into a lush landscape with all kinds of amazing plants, animals, people, all of them fascinating and exciting, all jostling in joyous creative cacophony with hidden plots just waiting to be uncovered. It starts off so crowded, I have to get out the machete and start…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 