I delight in watching people transform in my classes and feel more free.
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You and the pen and the paper are a thruple, writing as one.
What I love about being a writer and creative person is the insight it gives me into art and art-making.
You can’t chase two rabbits at once.
There are things I am still afraid of, but being myself will no longer be one of them.
Writing is a mystery to me, a heroic mystery. It’s such a challenge every time I go to the page. I never know how I’m going to finish anything without first getting into it.
One should never resort to dullness, ennui, tedium, languor in order to embrace acceptance.
I hadn’t thought the manuscript was so bad it deserved being torched.
When I go deep with my direct community of women we are able to identify needs to aid in the development of our juiciest, most creative selves.
Editing is where the poems take shape and come to life.
I delight in watching people transform in my classes and feel more free.
What if I wrote a black man whose power came from his anger?
I wanted to do everything in my power to make sure that other Black girls and young women were better prepared for navigating structural racism and sexism at work.
I will sometimes deliberate over a few sentences for years.
My creative juice is directly tied to my sexual juices: when I'm "getting it" regularly (especially when it’s *really* good) I can barely corral my creative energy
I very much have to write when the moment feels right, and normally I can handle that within a deadline, but that may mean 2AM with a pot of tea.
If you care about change, it's crazy not to look back at what came before.
The month is so charged and uplifting...like a long holiday for writers.
There's such a special atmosphere this time of year--thousands of writers all over the world supporting and motivating one another--it's magical!
I keep trying to edit and revise, but then I look at this first draft and discover there's so much that needs to be fixed, I don't know where to start. Pantsing (making up stuff as I go along) is partly responsible for that.
…the changes in the publishing industry have not been kind to many authors, me included. So I decided to take control of my fate.
Writing, on the other hand, remains spontaneous. It just pops out when there is something to say.
I stood on their stage and bawled my eyes out like Miss America.
But the impossible assignment really makes me happy and frees me up to write.
I'm trying to straddle this line between digital game design and poetry in my own work at the moment.
You have to take time explore yourself in a way that can be both pleasurable and painful.
San Francisco is a town full of writers, just as I’ve always suspected.
