Spotlight Saturday #17: Starting Over

I try to give my end-of-week post to other authors and bloggers whose work is worth noting. There are so many excellent articles out there, so many good poems and stories and artwork that I want to use my online space, once a week, to share something you might otherwise miss. To see last week’s … Continue reading Spotlight Saturday #17: Starting Over

Spotlight Saturday #16: Taking Wing

I try to give my end-of-week post to other authors and bloggers whose work is worth noting. There are so many excellent articles out there, so many good poems and stories and artwork that I want to use my online space, once a week, to share something you might otherwise miss. To see last week’s … Continue reading Spotlight Saturday #16: Taking Wing

Artistic Apprehension

It seeps into the room the moment you are faced with major rewriting. Some part of your story is off, and you may have some idea how to fix it, but the size of the problem—like needing a new protagonist, a completely different setting, or a new plot—is so daunting that you don’t want to … Continue reading Artistic Apprehension

The Pulse of a Poet

I don’t know if I can pen this. I can only ever try. It’s the motion of a dreamer, Catching thoughts as they pass by. But will I still remember, All the words they’d ever say? All the hopes and dreams and whispers, That will never go away. If you find them, would you know … Continue reading The Pulse of a Poet