“The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.” James Russell Lowell It’s always in July that I look up from the keyboard and think where has the year gone? Here it is July 18th, which means if you made writing goals for… Continue reading The Drowsy Bee and Your Writing Goals
Category: Writing Quotes
Discovering Poetry
“I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.” Robert Frost I loved the poem that The Writer’s Almanac presented today because it says a lot about voice. One Night by Jeremy Voight. If you’re not reading this on January 8th, you can do a search on the… Continue reading Discovering Poetry
5 Ways to Face Down Rejection
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.” Sylvester Stallone I don’t have any statistics on creative writing rejections. I do know that many best-selling authors often boast of how many rejections they received before they got their first work published. And… Continue reading 5 Ways to Face Down Rejection