On a quiet morning last summer, I ran my fingers along the row of books on a shelf in our living room. I stopped at one heavy-weight: The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, 2nd edition. I scanned the table of contents. James Baldwin, Ernest Hemingway, Franz Kafka, Flannery O’Connor. Over fourteen hundred pages of classics …
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The word escapes me.
This Wednesday’s Word idea is challenging today. pleiad: noun. a group of (usually seven) brilliant persons or things. (from wordsmith.org, today’s word) ***** I named this blog Writing Under Pressure for a reason. On a daily basis, I steal time away from things I should and could be doing, just so I can write. My …
Writing as Evidence
Every few days, the little voice inside my head confronts me with the same question: why write? What follows is a brief battle between several pros and one very strong con – you’re wasting your time. Julia Cameron devoted an entire book to debunking that creative crusher. Plenty of well-known writers have published their own …