“Being a freelance writer is interesting and not really a good thing for people who don’t enjoy a permanent sense of panic.” - John Scalzi
Poetry How-to
“Poet’s Classroom” Columns at Utmost Christian Writers
Other writing how-to articles:
– Poem Seeds: Collecting Poems from Your Journal
Book Reviews
- Reviews on Goodreads – click on any book cover to read the reviews.
- Review of So the Moon Would Not Be Swallowed by D. S. Martin
- Review of I Am the Poem by Alvin Ens
- Review of Duet for Wings and Earth by Barbara Colebrook Peace
Other Articles
- Ability – It’s Only Half the Equation
- Seven Subtle Ways to say “I Appreciate You”
- How to Resist the Redecorating Craze
- Six Steps to a Beautiful Countenance
“One of the few things I know about writing is this: Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book, give it, give it all, give it now… Some more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.” - Annie Dillard
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