raccoon makes
another mess –
light rain
Tag: make
haiku 580
thunderstorm
just enough to make
my cat hide
Quotable 456
Repeat the mantra: Writing is when I make the words. Editing is when I make them not shitty.
– Chuck Wendig
Quotable 445
Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.
– Anne Lamott
Quotable 444
The act of a pro is to make it look easy. Fred Astaire doesn’t grunt when he dances to let you know how hard it is. If you’re good at it, you leave no fingerprints.
– Lillian Ross
haiku 546
putting the cat out –
overhead, a butterfly
makes its escape
Quotable 415
If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading.
– Henry Green
haiku 529
a look through the door
raccoon kit
makes eye contact
Quotable 380
One of the jobs of poetry is to make the unbearable bearable by clear, precise confrontation.
– Richard Wilbur
Quotable 352
Word choice stands at the center of the practice of writing. This is particularly true for poetry, and even more so for haiku. Simply put, the choice of a word can make or break a poem.
– David Grayson