by Elizabeth | Sep 10, 2019 | Impractical Alphabet, Uncategorized
The page is the answer to all your questions, from “what happens next?” to “should I keep trying?” The page answers yes and better than yes. The page produces story, scene, character, wisdom, humor, the small scratch of life and the wide, convex horizon. The page...
by Elizabeth | Sep 10, 2019 | Impractical Alphabet
Dreaming, getting words on the page, delving into a realm you are simultaneously creating (or recreating) is a trick that involves chaos, extreme disorder. Revising is messy, too. At present, I am patching half-comprehensible signals from my unconscious into a...
by Elizabeth | Sep 15, 2016 | Practical Alphabet, Uncategorized
Much that is immediately visible to you will conspire against you. For many of us, a voice arises when we go to write or think about writing that says, “What if it’s terrible?” The only answer a writer can give to that question is to shrug. What it it’s terrible? It’s...
by Elizabeth | Sep 15, 2016 | Practical Alphabet, Uncategorized
I was in a memoir class not too long ago, as a student. There were about ten of us and each had a story to tell. Some were experienced, even published writers, and others did not even have a particular affinity for writing, but we all had an idea of what our books...
by Elizabeth | Sep 15, 2016 | Practical Alphabet, Uncategorized
You have at hand so many master writers, living in your house, clustered in your writing space, by your bed. They will teach you not just what they know but what they did, for you have them in the form of their books, their stories, the words on the page, the images,...
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