One of my daughters recently bought a guitar and began lessons. We were looking at guitar and other music-related books one evening, and found this quote in The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Art of Songwriting: Carole King once told me that she would sit down at the piano first thing every morning and just play […]
If you’re called to write, you don’t need any additional excuse. Writing can be as natural as eating, as natural as drinking water or breathing. If you want to write, you should write. So you visit your local stationery store, you buy a gorgeous journal bound in leather, or a spiral notebook with Duck Dynasty […]
This fall I am taking time off from teaching my regular load of classes. I am training myself to avoid saying, “I’m not working.” I am working. I’m getting up every morning and writing…except when I’m on my way to Chehalis (so far, every week) to see my mother, or to attend a conference. I am […]
I came across this line in my reading today. It’s from Dean Young’s The Art of Recklessness: “But IT’S OKAY TO ENJOY WRITING! Poetry need not be a distillation of suffering!”