Tag: writing process

I’m obsessed with this picture of the full moon. As soon as I took it, my muse started insisting that there’s a poem in that image. I’m not really a poet. My mind’s eye doesn’t often break things down into the kind of vivid, discrete pieces that poetry seems...

Literature has a long history of exploring social issues. Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – treatment of the mentally ill. Harper Lee, To Kill a Mocking Bird – racism. Margaret Atwood, The Handmaiden’s Tale – misogyny and religious fanaticism. Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye – internalized...

One meaning of ‘writing process’ is the writing routine. The other meaning is how the writer approaches the work. Are they at the ‘figure everything out in advance’ (a plotter) end of the writing approach spectrum or are they at the ‘figure it by the seat of their pants’...

Whenever I go to a reading event, inevitably during the question and answer session someone asks about the author’s writing process. It seems that writers interpret the ‘writing process’ as having two meanings. One is writing routine; the butt in chair work of getting words on paper. Cheryl Strayed,...