Category Archives: WRITING

The things that we’ve done wrong cling to the vulnerable conscience. Impossible to remove completely, some residue remains like the sticky feel of glue from labels picked off a soft ripe supermarket pear left gouged by prying fingernails. Continue reading →

It’s very strange, to think in different language than I speak. The brain transfers the eloquence to the fingers to articulate, the mouth too slow perhaps or poorly formed. The tongue too thick? Or stolen by the cat? This problem … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Once upon a time I used to sashay, swinging hips to music played to metronome and caught in empty bowls by those who wrote the lyrics, who understood the words and sang along. Women shut their windows against the quiet, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

He first saw her on the internet, a glimpse of hair and thigh, and though he tried to meet her she was far above him, separated by a time and space created by a society he still himself did not … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I shoulda, woulda, coulda asked for slate and chalk, but encouragement breeds cockiness, and now I am left staring at a paper marred with several holes. Intelligent enough at least to use a pencil with eraser that grants forgiveness to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

After reading the material and posting the previous entry, which was mostly done out of glee and personal satisfaction, I took a deeper and more sobering look at the situation, and it upsets me even more, but in a calm … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I love it, I love it, I love it! Via Jerz’s Literacy Log, I found this and just absolutely have to call it to anybody’s attention I can–even Googlers and Yahooers seeking The Swimmer: “Call me nuts, but PC language … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This is a lazy way of doing it, but honestly more professional that what I’ve offered so far, and it deserves a post of its own in this series. First, in the previously referenced Critique Guidelines by Amy Sterling Casil, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Just noticed that in referring to Casel’s piece, I typo’d Hardcore Critique Guidelines into Hardcare Guidelines. Aside from wanting to make the correction, I’m wondering if this wasn’t a Freudian slip… Care is an essential element of the process; care … Continue reading → Continue reading →

“An interesting post, but the critique/criticism issue gets more murky when you bring in what people “hear” and “act” upon that hearing. How does one learn to take good criticism?” (ersinghaus response to WRITING: Critiquing (I) 3/20/04) Personally, I find … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Driving on Route 179, alongside the curves of the snaking Farmington River, I see the earth shedding its scales in great shale slabs that land precariously tipped against the cliffs, the raw unweathered wound brighter, cleaner than its rainwashed host. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Perhaps a shower cap would keep the water off my head and prevent the germination of the seeds that grow within… “Do good, honest work.” (quote by S.V.E. sometime recently) And that is perhaps the main reason for taking Talespinning … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m beginning to wonder whether my relative silence in my first fifty years of life was due to word storage in a fragile membrane within some as yet scientifically undiscovered spot within the brain that has, in my case, just … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Skulking through the fog of melting snow, he blends into the grey morning in camouflage of nature’s evil intent. They scatter at his progress for when he stops he is unseen and patient when they trustingly return, surprised to find … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Figured it was a good time to take advantage of creative output to expand into areas other than my own self-serving interests. I have several pieces to read for a writers’ workshop in a couple of weeks. Honestly, I can … Continue reading → Continue reading →