Writer & Poet
How’s your writing going? How’s your quarantine going? How are you doing today? I finally identified my current writing problem. Instruction fatigue that leads to paralysis. I’m editing a novel as I try to write more poetry. I’m using search and replace to search and destroy insidious words. Good advice I read somewhere. Normally, I…
I started out smug. Coronavirus can’t get me, I don’t associate with people all that much. My faithful muse smacked me on the back of the head. Fool, said she. I’m not as introverted as I think. Being in the high risk group makes me very cautious. Even my other half worries about bringing something…
Sometimes I think too much. That is my main excuse for not writing political poetry. I’m an after thinker. I’m non-confrontational. By the time I’ve absorbed the daily news cycle and thought about its background and implications, weeks have passed. I’m not timely. In today’s fast-moving poetic world some people can write a poem on…
(Thank you, 60’s Batman, for the onomatopoeia.) Why does the answer to everything seem to be violence? Books, movies, real life. Blood, gore, guns. Maybe I’m too much a wuss for this. I don’t believe every problem needs to be solved by punching, shooting, blowing up, or some form of superhero power liberally applied. It’s…
