Book Review: Ordinary Genius, A Guide for the Poet Within
“This book is a must-read for those curious about writing poetry…”
Writing Tips
A Life Lived for Art Is Never A Life Wasted
To write well, you have to write what-you-know, and your knowledge about what motivates, scares, angers, and affirms the individual person are the brushes you will use to paint page after page.
When Creativity Is Exhausted
Truly, I tell you, you can easily spend a whole-life feeling behind everyone else or below their expectations, or you can embrace who you are and accept your whole self and not just what others accept about you.
A Rambling Treatise on The Craft
Nothing arouses me more than when a reader, as if hoodwinked by a magician, thinks I have talent.
N.L. Blandford: On Writing
“People can shy away from topics because they are hard, and it can be easier to call them dark, rather than truth, or an aspect thereof. I believe that it is in the dark that we can really start to understand the true nature of our world and its people.” —N.L. Blandford
Masters of The Craft: Stephen Crane, The Herald of Naturalism
All great writers master the craft, but Crane—like Whitman, like Dickinson, like Hemingway, like Hugo, like Pope, like Voltaire, like Homer, like Kafka, like Woolf—had a touch of the divine; that unteachable it factor, and it is among the company of these writers where he lives forever in the pantheon of literary immortality.