poetry & prose – tmstanton.com

#356 — a turtle on its track

Looking back on February, poet S.P. Johnson comes to some pretty hard-fought conclusions about the act of “doing” vs “not doing”.

My draft now has 4 points of view now. Sentences are at war, whole paragraphs are passive. It is a lawless land.

I’ve been pretty obsessed with this new story… Anyway, here’s an (unedited) excerpt.

I had a ridiculous dream about a month ago. There was a clear beginning and middle. No ending.

Guest Writer S.P. Johnson’s rumination on the writing process is a hard-earned reminder!

Somehow, I only wrote 7,548 words in January. In contrast, I read over 86,700 words in fiction.