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Read “This Is Just to Say,” the famous apology poem about plums in an icebox by William Carlos Williams. Write your own apology poem about something you are not really sorry about – maybe erasing your spouse’s favorite reality show from the DVR, tossing the belongings of a difficult ex, or eating the whole pan of brownies.
Originally PublishedA writing conference is a perfect mix of all the ingredients you need to grow as a writer. It doesn’t matter if you are just beginning or have a thriving writing career; a good conference provides everything, and it all happens over the span of a few days.
Feeling overwrought by a lack of writing time? Finding time to write is about figuring out what works best for you & your passion.
“E.L. Doctorow said once said that ‘Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.’ You don’t have to see where you’re going, you don’t have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.”
