Category: Writing
For posts about writing, the writing process, etc.
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Finding Poetry in Our Daily Lives
I may still be coming down from the high of LexPoMo, but I again found myself reflecting for the last week about the strain and enjoyment of writing a poem every day during the month of June. The beginning of July also prompts me to think about the semester ahead even as I try to…
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Failing at Summer
I must admit to my own limitations whenever I notice them, and these past several days after the end of the spring semester have left me feeling aimless. Yes, there is the sudden freedom from making hundreds of decisions a day and using my mind for many more tasks as I go about my schedule.…
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Spring Has Me Feeling… Strange
Yesterday evening gave me a chance to take part in a writing workshop that I had watched from afar for several months due to the urging of another writer and friend. When I am deep into working on a project, I find Newton’s First Law affects a terrible toll on me, and the likelihood that…
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Winter Tries to Slow Us Down—And We Need It to Do So
January always hits hard in my part of Kentucky. If it’s not the weather in this part of the world doing so, then it is some other force looming over us in negative anticipation or expectation. Perhaps I have been spending too much time reading Walden while I have been at home due to the…
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End-of-the-Year Post: Make 2026 a Year of Poetry
As I worked to take care of many activities during my break that I do not have time for during the rest of the semester, the days slipped away from me as they often do during periods of rest, and I noticed that 2025 almost slipped away from me, too! I never mean to go…
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When in Doubt, Write it Out
I made the mistake of glancing at our academic calendar after returning from a few days of Fall Break to discover that we had several weeks until our next sizable break other than the standard weekend that I rarely have free. I don’t ever recommend looking at the calendar if you can avoid it, but…
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Resistance is the Enemy: A Review of The War of Art
Although I cannot remember where exactly I read the first reference to the book, sometimes allusions to a work of art sound again and again throughout other written works until we must face the original source. That constant reemergence describes my journey to Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win…
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Craft Post: Filling in the Gaps with Your Imagination or Extensive Description?
One writing choice that I feel like I am struggling with currently has been the decision whether to provide just enough description to allow the reader to fill in the world with their own interpretations of my words or provide such an extensive description that every aspect of the world has been decided for them.…
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Journaling: Or How I Found My Way back to My Source
The beginning of the school year can be filled with many tedious get-to-know-you activities that often suck the life out of the very relationships we are trying to foster with our students. I know this fact and accept it as true, but knowing this truth does not stop me from wanting to know enough about…
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The One Keeping the Light On
On a recent nighttime trip back from a cousin’s wedding, I experienced those rare first few minutes in the car where it took me larger than normal to fall asleep. Perhaps the reason was the bag full of cheese curds I had just eaten or the thousand thoughts that crowded my mind after a beautiful…