About Your Writing: Yogi Berra, the “A-rational,” and Magical Thinking by Steve Adams
But artists, and especially writers, can get caught by overthinking.
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About Your Writing: The Voice of the Oppressor by Steve Adams
Perfectionism truly is “the oppressor,” and writers often don’t even know that this is what they’re battling, as it tends to come disguised.
About Your Writing: Fear As Your Ally by Steve Adams
You’re out on the high wire, where all the good writing, all the good art, always is.
About Your Writing: Art During Wartime by Steve Adams
How can my small personal imperfect work possibly matter when the world seems aflame?
About Your Writing: When Less Is More by Steve Adams
Fewer, more precise words, deliver your moment with more impact and clarity.
About Your Writing: As Far as Acting by Steve Adams
If you’re game, the study of acting can really help a writer.
About Your Writing: Forth and Back, Back and Forth by Steve Adams
Amazing endings are less often amazing because of what happens there, than because what happens there seems the logical conclusion of everything that came before it.
About Your Writing: Protect the Space by Steve Adams
Your doing this, your creating some boundaries and showing up to do your writing will train your loved ones, as well as you, as to what that time at your desk means.
About Your Writing: Make It Personal by Steve Adams
If you do your best work, you won’t be able to predict how it will act in the world, or upon the world. And this is good, because it may be smarter than you. It might do better work if you’re out of the way.
About Your Writing: The Point of Staring by Steve Adams
The point of staring, really—and I’d say all poets know this—is to see below the surface of what you’re looking at
JMWW 