What I’ve Learned from a Life of Reading Jon Pearson Always be a poet- even in prose. Charles Baudelaire Usually when people ask me how I became a writer I like to blame it on my cousin Jon, who is now a multi-award-winning writer of short stories. Before…
2020 October
Welcome to the next in our NaNoWriMo series of reflections on this poet’s experience trying to write a novel. So is there a best time in the day to write? Probably not. If there is, it’s different for everybody, but here’s how I experience it. I like to write. Especially…
The Set Up Yesterday a student told me she was excited about National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), but also intimidated by it. Like most of us poets, she is accustomed to writing short pieces, and has never attempted anything as big as a full novel. Feeling overwhelmed is perfectly natural…
We are here to help one another get through ‘this’ whatever ‘this’ is. – Kurt Vonnegut One of the things I find so intriguing about living through this pandemic is how I feel both overwhelmed by all the rapid changes of the world, at the same time I…