The generous and beautiful word…
Adam Nicholson writes of a scroll Homer found rolled beneath the head of a female mummy: Hawara Homer, written on...
The magic of great stories
Coming from a superb storyteller, this comment on the secret of the Great Stories is refreshing and insightful. It has long...
A plunging-in approach to writing
Wonderful exuberance of spirit in this wielding of the pen, beginning with that zestful, zipping 'Hang it all!' and 'Here...
Roiling poetry
Written by a poet, this suggests that poems aren't written, but rather roil and form of their own volition. Having...
Poetry as a boat
Another maritime metaphor in Heaney's introduction to a poem set in a sea-world. The ‘big quay’ of language and literature can...
Key Penmanship Indicators (KPIs)
An author whose bright writing I cheer and revere made this kind comment about WritingRedux.com. He also handed me a...
To see at a distance
Thoreau has many striking things to say about poets, and even if I can't seize on them as definitive or...
The secret of surprise
A pithy tip from one of the masters, succinctly conveyed in Clive James' translation. Â It's certainly given me food for...
The window-dressers of power
While this comment refers to a specific poetry collection, I like it as a worthwhile goal for poetry, or come...
The sonnet never written
This is one of the longest and most entertaining chapters in Machado de Assis' novel Don Casmurro, a fictional memoir...
An awakened influence
Charlotte Bronte describes the spirit of writing when it flows. This happens to me occasionally, and I've noticed you can't...
Something more pressing
Yes, you can find a thousand things more urgent than writing, or at least more insistent. Writing for this...
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