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Wordswimmer

Bruce Black

On writing and the mystery of the writing process

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When you’re trying to write, it’s critical to set aside a space of your own that has no distractions, a place where you can let your imagination roam free and take flight without fear of falling.

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Letter Box: the geometry of loss

It’s excruciatingly hard to describe the pain of losing a young mother, to return to the moment when she took her last breath and then, filled with grief and anger and pain, to try and move on.

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Revise, revise, revise

If you want your words

to sing on the page

you need to keep harmonizing,

keep testing different notes, trying

different combinations of words

arranging and rearranging,

then rearranging again

until the words on the page

find the ord...

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Not knowing how or why

A morning of starts and stops

of false beginnings

of missteps

trying to find my footing

on a path I can’t see

working through silence

hoping to hear a voice

deleting more words

crossing out full sentences

beginning again

sto...

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A writer's prayer of gratitude

Thanks to the Divine Source of words where all words begin their journey into the world.

Thanks for the desire to write and for the imagination that reveals what I can’t see with my eyes alone.

Thanks for the curiosity to explore the worl...

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    Come swim toward a new understanding of the writing process with Bruce Black, who searches for words, poems, and stories on Florida's west coast.

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