Rules of writing fly into my head
The point is to keep typing always. Always type. Always keep going. The worst thing that the editor in your head can do to you is to keep you silent. To keep your fingers immobile with doubt and dreams.
Category: writing
In which the poems get their new home
My friend Cathy has mentioned to me that my poems seem to be very well hidden on this blog. This was not my purpose. To fix the problem, I am giving them a new home on their very own blog: a night kitchen. The site gets its name from its very first post. Thus, I … Continue reading In which the poems get their new home
qotd
Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond. Denial, repression, all those psychological adaptations we developed in childhood were ways of not being there, because being there was too painful. Writing demands that we cut through and be where we are, like a cat gripping the side of … Continue reading qotd
More writing about writing (writing tools)
They have a pen store here in Boulder. It seems, too, that my hand is no longer too shaky from the operation to write with a fountain pen. I have a kid’s pen, which I can and have labeled with my name. There seems to be a primal urge to paste my name over everything … Continue reading More writing about writing (writing tools)
white pebble 