my love letter to “the poetics of wrongness”
These experiences and questions matter. They are, in fact, vital. I’m grateful for the way Zucker tends to them and the way this book tries to make space for something new.
Category: Writing about writing
Some thoughts (actually, lots of thoughts) on the writing life
hello, sunshine
If you want to be a writer, absolutely surround yourself with people who admire and support what you’re doing. But understand it starts with you. You have to care. You have to take care. You have to be there for the work and for yourself.
what comes after ambition
I’ve embraced productivity as a synonym for success for so long that it’s hard now to accept my desire for something else in its place.
poets were not meant to portage
The boats are heavy. My hands are soft. The portage “saves us” from a series of rapids and falls but is so taxing I joke that, next time, I’m just going for it.
what does success even look like?
I took the summer off, almost entirely, from any of the familiar measures of writing productivity. Here’s what I did instead.
“an uncomfortable mind”
Since my style is associative and imagistic, I’ve typically depended on being able to see the strange places things intersect. Losing that spacial awareness, even metaphorically, has been quite challenging.
why do you keep writing?
This walk through the halls of “Is It Worth It” is an invitation to check in with myself and affirm that I’m still here for The Writing. I’m being asked to reacquaint myself with the landscape of my writing life, to see it anew, much like I’m being offered fresh looks on some amazing views right in my backyard.