May 2012
11 posts
April 2012
10 posts
Ten Ways Poetry Can Improve Your Prose
lettersandlight:
A few years ago, while plodding through a revision of my novel (revisions require the writer’s equivalent of heavy-duty hiking boots), I got bored by my writing. It was too literal, too realistic, too earnest, and too flat.
Most writers are all too familiar with this feeling after a red-eyed reading of a draft. I needed a way to literally jar my narrative sensibility. I...
Hanging in the Balance
ninewhitetulips:
I saw a Star end its Life last night For the longest time It hung Upon nothing but the Final hold of Gravity considering Its choices: Falling to Earth or Falling into the Opened And smiling mouth Of the Moon Last I checked Earth Was not Aglow with stardust And the Star And Moon were Nowhere to be found
Michelle Dent
“I believe in doing things too soon. In striking before the iron is hot, in...”
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unecrepuscule:
Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There’s a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing’s kind of like exhibitionism in private. And there’s also a strange loneliness, and a desire to have some kind of conversation with people, but not a real great ability to do it in person.
-David Foster Wallace, 1996
March 2012
5 posts
“How any human being could have attempted to write Wuthering Heights without...”
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January 2012
15 posts
Taylor Swift as Eponine in Les Misérables is one...
“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via madaeli26
It’s taken me a long time to figure this out. ~MD
(via ninewhitetulips)
December 2011
4 posts
November 2011
10 posts
