I await ideas and emotions and the words that hold them. I follow my instincts.
What is your footprint? Your fingerprint? Every bit of what you write includes some aspect about you. Writing can be a discovery process for you, or a statement about you. Recognize the beauty in that, that every bit of what you write is inherently valuable for simply those reasons. Now, understand that some fingerprints
David L. Ulin, Jennifer Nelson, and Kayt Sukel respond. ◊ Meredith: Does rejection have a purpose, as far as creativity is concerned? DAVID L. ULIN: Yes, rejection definitely has a purpose. Sometimes, that purpose is to tell you to work harder. Sometimes, it is to piss you off. Just before I started “The Lost Art
Lately I’ve been trying something a little different. Instead of dedicating myself to the writing, I’m dedicating myself to the story. To the bigger picture. This is a big shift for me. I am one (maybe you are, too?) who becomes sentimental about words, sentences, paragraphs I like that I wrote. The issue with such
by Amy Paturel I primarily use journals to vent. Writing is a way to release my emotions, understand where they stem from and ultimately grow from them. Essays provide me with a similar cathartic outlet. I use them to delve deeper into an issue and view it from a different perspective. Perhaps not surprisingly, many