Archive for the “Writing” category
Writing Well
by Kym on May 18, 2011
Writing is like drawing water from a well. Bucket after bucket of letters and paragraphs and semicolons spilling out onto the page until suddenly, the well runs dry. No more letters. Maybe a couple apostrophes are embedded in the muck (…)
Books, Books, Books
by Kym on March 11, 2011
There is something about writing that makes me hungry to read. It’s as if writing drains the words out of me and reading pours them back in. I’m finding this precarious balance, because if I read too much but leave (…)
Oops!
by Kym on February 9, 2011
A couple years back I wrote a blog post about how life is like being one of those plate spinning circus performers, trying to keep all those plates going at once but inevitably watching some of them shatter. I have (…)
Literary Hugs
by Kym on January 13, 2011
A book is like a hug. I’ve thought that since I was nine years old, many (many) long years before seeing the whimsical graphic I’ve included with this post. Back then, I sought solace, comfort, and even friendship in tales (…)
