The writing is for you

As Write the Wise Way Home slowly transitions to Writers’ Sanctuary, I want to share a few guiding principles I’m working on. I hope they will inspire you. 1) I believe that writers with urgent stories are often reluctant prophets and that their messages...

Why you read

Do you ever think about what you read at a given moment or why? For example, sometimes you might read to feel understood and feel drawn to books that echo your specific experience in the world. Sometimes you want to enter someone else’s world, to gain...

Wait for the Words

Wait for the words. They are never far from you, Often lingering just below consciousness. You can feel them rising, But you can’t force them to the surface, Like fish on a hook. You wait for that first line, And when you write it down, You discover another one....

Decluttering for writers

A few months ago, I started a decluttering process, sorting through detritus from the last twenty-five years. As pat of the process, I had moved a basket of notebooks from my studio into my bedroom. For weeks, every time I got out of bed, I found them staring back at...

One way to write

This is for anyone who was ever told that their way of writing or creating wouldn’t work. For anyone who ever believed the promise of the magic book writing formula or the perfect movie plot or that getting into a particular school would guarantee success. For...
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