Quotables: Every Writer Does Well

Every writer does well to step away from the desk at regular intervals, to confront life where it is most tangible, most urgent: not on the page, but out in the world. . . . it is only what you see, what you hear, what strikes you as important and significant, that you can write about. . . . That is the clay with which we make our sculptures, the notes available to play our music. ~ Dinty W. Moore, The Mindful Writer

up-close view of Lake Superior with rocks under clear water

Quotables: #Poetry #TheRiver #Spring

On the other side of the river / there is a flame / a flame / burning May burning August . . . .

a poet looks to her / a farmer looks to her / a Dialectical Materialist looks to her / she is on the other side of the river, burning….

The Other Side of the River” by Xi Chaun

* Photo credit: my son, 16, a young man with an eye for hidden treasures.

Quotables: Crank It Out.

In the beginning, when there are zero pages, you have to cheer yourself into cranking stuff out, even if it later lands on the cutting room floor. Each page takes you somewhere you need to travel before you can land in the next spot.
                    ~ Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir

Crank it out.