I have been thinking about what metaphors I use to describe my writing life, and this poem strikes me as one of those amazing turning points, where we realize how much we have to be grateful for.
These ten tweets from Joanne Harris were collected on Aerogramme Writers’ Studio yesterday (click on the link to go to them). They are so good, and such good reminders of my own practice, that I am compelled to share them with you, rather than just tell you all my own stuff, again. Write every day. Write […]
“God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people’s secrets we want to know — it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.” AUGUST STRINDBERG Many presents […]
I came across this poem misattributed to another David in a book I’m reading (a book I otherwise love). So I looked it up and found it on the web with typos, mistitled, etc. But it also appears (correctly) on Best American Poetry. The whole process made me reflect on how mistakes can add emphasis […]