Avoiding Writer's Block
Although we can all name various distractions, from those that are life-altering to fairly minor ones, writers face daily hurdles in the process of writing and completing a book or work of considerable substance. Once in a while, my dog has gotten sick just as I've had a half-formed thought that was working its way into an unique construction. How many times has the phone rung? On occasion, the electricity goes out in a storm, I'm without power for seemingly no apparent reaso
Necessity of Persistence
Even when the snow is “falling faintly…faintly falling,” prospects for publishing literary work are appalling. It’s 1:17 a.m. as the writer completes an initial draft and 1:17 again somewhere in the world in the weeks, months, or years after those words were first composed. Quality work does not equate to success. Wait time, unreasonably long, is familiar to writers in every genre but particularly to poets and literary fiction writers who seek to share their work with the pub
