The End Is in Sight
That’s what the best writing feels like to me–not a mad dash to get something done, but a sort of relaxing into the sentences that are already there and finding what’s in between them.
Vision and Revision
Once I started employing these questions, I realized that revision is not just about line breaks and word choice and commas; it’s about uncovering the poem’s essence.
We Need Humor Now More Than Ever
And more than that, humor can be its own revolutionary act in the face of the unfathomable. It’s a refusal to go away quietly. It’s self-care for the fight ahead. It helps us make sense of an upside-down world.
What Romance Can Teach Us About Writing
Readers have to be right there feeling what the protagonists are feeling, and if you don’t take care to convey that in your writing, they won’t have that immersive experience, or fully enter into the satisfying ending.