Q: What’s a Girl To Do?
(love, my bat-lightning-heart.)
(love, my bat-lightning-heart.)
(love, my bat-lightning-heart.)

Lately, I’ve been feeling the acquired NY survival-abilities of multitasking, noticing the 25+ things my students are doing, and looking in 5 directions while walking down a busy street, have taken over my brain, resulting in a near inability to complete, finish, focus. (look, I hardly stopped to punctuate or finish that sentence!) For example, I’ve taken to dip-reading into 5 books at once, and barely finishing one, all excitement, little follow-through, as the leaning tower of paperbacks on my bedside table attests.

Lately, I’ve been feeling the acquired NY survival-abilities of multitasking, noticing the 25+ things my students are doing, and looking in 5 directions while walking down a busy street, have taken over my brain, resulting in a near inability to complete, finish, focus. (look, I hardly stopped to punctuate or finish that sentence!) For example, I’ve taken to dip-reading into 5 books at once, and barely finishing one, all excitement, little follow-through, as the leaning tower of paperbacks on my bedside table attests.
As one who labored for 15 years as an editor urging writers to birth their darlings and nurture them so that we would have something interesting to publish, I cheered after reading Blount’s critique of this maxim. What is “murder your darlings” but a giant, throbbing, attention-grabbing darling itself? Quiller-Couch could have written “kill your pets” or “eliminate your sweeties” if he was so keen on scrubbing his copy of brilliant phrases, Blount writes, demolishing the famous directive by quoting passages in its vicinity. They swarm with darlings!”
read here
As one who labored for 15 years as an editor urging writers to birth their darlings and nurture them so that we would have something interesting to publish, I cheered after reading Blount’s critique of this maxim. What is “murder your darlings” but a giant, throbbing, attention-grabbing darling itself? Quiller-Couch could have written “kill your pets” or “eliminate your sweeties” if he was so keen on scrubbing his copy of brilliant phrases, Blount writes, demolishing the famous directive by quoting passages in its vicinity. They swarm with darlings!”
read here
these make me want to hang out with a French kid…..
A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feelings through words. This may sound easy. It isn’t.
A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feelings through words. This may sound easy. It isn’t.