Begin your story with a voice.
– Ursula K. LeGuin
haiku 588
searching
for a lost cat –
meanwhile, fireflies
Quotable 469
One of the first things I tell my classes is, “If you want to write, keep a low overhead.”
– Grace Paley
haiku 587
night drive –
scraggly fox
flees the headlights
Quotable 468
I have great fears. I’m terrified of guns. I’m terrified of heights, so I write about bridge-builders and gunfighters.
– Michael Ondaatje
haiku 586
graveside service –
three kinds of cicadas
whirr in the trees
Quotable 467
The idea is to avoid monotony.
– Lester Dent
haiku 585
calling plumbers –
toilet tank takes a leak
on bathroom floor
Quotable 466
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
– Stephen King
haiku 584
mushed squirrel –
above, squirrel
walks the wire