by Jocosa Wade | Oct 17, 2019 | Books, Inspiration, Writers life
Writing is momentum. When I allow my hand to run across the page— driven solely by what Natalie Goldberg calls Wild Mind— anything can happen. It’s why I show up. Why I’ve always shown up. The first to arrive and the last to leave because I couldn’t risk missing out....
by Jocosa Wade | Oct 17, 2019 | Writing Practice
Movement was key, and the key was around my neck; that’s what extra shoestrings were for— skate keys. After eight hours at a desk, where the only activity was my pencil gliding haphazardly across the page to form letters and numbers I didn’t care about, I needed to...
by Jocosa Wade | Oct 10, 2019 | Creativity, Inspiration, Writers life, Writing tools
My college spending money was earned by working as a counselor for a Girl Scout camp in Michigan. Summers at camp were the best way to burn off the drudge of the academic year: ghost stories around the campfire, cheeks exhausted from laughing at the shenanigans of...
by Jocosa Wade | Oct 10, 2019 | Writing Practice
Angular man with guitarNo longer gazes at the stars. Fingers pluck with eyelids closedMuscles tense— No chance for repose. White hair like a mountaintopChanneling chords of...
by Jocosa Wade | Oct 3, 2019 | Books, Inspiration, Writers life
“The death of Don Quixote felt like the extinction in all of us of a special kind of beautiful foolishness, an innocent grandeur, a thing for which the world had no place, but which one might call humanity.” Quichotte by Salman Rushdie is a delightful modern retelling...
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