Let Me Be Clear: On Writersʼ Workshops
Amy talks about the value of attending writing workshops as one of the investments we can make in our craft: "Such experiences as I have begun collecting in workshops are what make this life of record...
View ArticleLet Me Be Clearer Still: Part Two on Writers’ Workshops
Amy lends another dose of clarity to her reasons for attending writers' workshops: "In my previous post, I explained why I have come to value writing workshops for their ability to make imagined...
View ArticleOn Throwing Out Work with a Flourish
Amy thinks about artistic growth and the work we should, or must leave behind, and that which we must take forward: "I have preferred dramatic edits, reducing my thesis by two thirds to a published...
View ArticleThe Opposite of Advice: My Take on Block
Amy writes about the times between creativity and proffers that the writer embrace these seemingly idle times: "Block or discomfort in the gaps between writing may be similarly requisite, as integral...
View ArticlePacing Yourself
Amy Wright is at the Sewanee Writers' Conference and writes from that beautiful campus about the warnings she has received to pace herself. Not only is she looking for a perfect pace, but she's also...
View ArticleOn Freedom From, If Nothing Else, Distraction
Amy discusses the idea of freedom and the ways in which it pertains to the writer: "Is writing to liberate me from responsibilities? No, but it may help me respond better to them."
View ArticleA Trick Question About Dedication
Amy questions the nature of dedication to the muse, and how we as writers can reconcile the tug-o-war between the demands of ordinary life and writing: "...the question that haunts...is one I find...
View ArticleA Life of the Mind is Inside a Body
Amy connects the body of the writer and her prose: "We access emotions as readers through the bodies we have in common. As writers, we might honor that the material of our minds is not located solely...
View ArticleGive It Up
Amy encourages the writer to give up habitual beliefs that do not serve: "My mind was whirring with frustration that I hadn't had time to write all week. I had been busy with other tasks for which I...
View ArticleTen Ways To Feed Your Persona
Amy thinks about masquerade for the writer: "...conjuring a persona is not the only way to access new material or to change oneʼs relationship to what she has already created, but it is one means. That...
View ArticleOn Being Assessed
Amy considers the scrutiny required for the writer in her editorial role: "My recommendation is that she work out a routine for making the shift. The more prescriptive she makes it, the more automatic...
View ArticleMy Effort to Reach the Poetry Curious
Amy interviews poet and Architrave Press publisher Jennifer Tappenden.
View ArticleVeiling the Bowl
Amy thinks about archetypes and the woman writer tapping into the creative spirit: "She is not how I would have pictured her—with wild tangled hair and mossy teeth, though she would know how to...
View ArticleA Project Worthy of Respect, or What Jake Adam York Taught Me
Amy remembers Jake Adam York, the Civil Rights poet characterized as a “responsible poet of Whiteness.”
View ArticleHeld by just one other person, our work changes
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