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Some poems are finished in a day or two. Some take years. And some never get beyond those first scratches on a page.

Everyone knows that re-visiting a first draft has the potential to improve it. But you can also mess up a piece if you pull it apart in the wrong way.

I awoke on Monday morning with a deep yearning to de-clutter my inbox. The night before I’d cogitated on the moment  I’d seen that I

Kindness isn’t a weakness. To be kind in difficult circumstances demands strength. And kindness invokes compassion. Alows for nuance.

Everything has to happen somewhere. One of the most important writing skills you can develop, whether your story takes the form of a show, novel

(Just) A quick writing skills tip this month. See what I did there?  Human beings love peppering their conversation and their writing with intensifiers like just, really and very. We