Something about a situation will bother me, so I will write a piece to find out what it is.
– Joan Didion
Author: bryon
haiku 540
a migraine a day
is no way
to write haiku
Quotable 422
Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to get away.
– William Zinsser
haiku 539
dog days –
calling the outdoor cat in
where it’s cool
Quotable 421
The continually reassuring thing is that we’re all novices when we start a new work.
– Alice McDermott
haiku 538
cooler night –
katydids compete
with sirens
Quotable 420
Writing is not just what happens at a desk. It happens everywhere and always, whenever your mind encounters a thought it wants to wrap words around.
– Kevin Coyne
haiku 537
storm arrives –
raccoon tracks
across the porch
Quotable 419
I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it’s words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.
– Geraldine Brooks
haiku 536
dark low clouds and sun –
grass grows over
prairie dog mounds