I am not a “non-native English writer.” Neither am I a “native English writer.” I’m a multi-language author. Recently on The Clarity Editor I came across a post that gave voice to an issue I have been pondering. The article … Continued
Past two months I was in a weird limbo, hunkered down in the transitional space between the poetry collection that has found a home and the new collection percolating in my head. This space was not comfortable and felt like … Continued
No phrase has killed more dreams than “what will people say?” Any person who has ever put themselves or their work in the public sphere has been concerned with how it will be received. It can be paralyzing for any … Continued
A serious practitioner of any discipline, creative or otherwise, works towards maturing their craft to a level of excellence. For writers, maturity of craft means having the instinct and judgment to consistently make the right conceptual and technical choices in … Continued
We writers are an anxious, self-doubting lot. We tie ourselves up in knots, expecting Pulitzer-worthy flow from our pens, have whip-cracking inner editors, self-flagellating internal monologues… It’s very common then, for us to second guess ourselves and our accomplishments. Even … Continued
The past year and a half was a time of ruthless revision – polishing and compiling my work into a manuscript that I hope, in the near future, publishers everywhere will start a ferocious bidding war to acquire (ha!). It … Continued
It’s not easy being ruthless. I get attached to the sentences I write. I develop soulful relationships with whole stanzas and passages during the process of their creation. If I hang on to them with the ferocity of a pitbull … Continued
This blog post is for two types of people: 1- Those who want to write but are paralyzed at the thought of beginning their project. 2- Those who start writing but their passion, ambition and ideas fizzle out midway through … Continued
“It has been estimated that the average person has sixty thousand separate thoughts each and every day.” – Wayne W. Dyer. Most of us have minds that race night and day and if you’re a writer a major chunk of … Continued