Keeping Journals Can Help Writers by Inviting Scrappiness
In an essay William Matthews wrote as a contribution to my anthologyĀ The Writerās Journal: 40 Writers and Their JournaIs, later reprinted inĀ Keeping a Journal You Love, the late poetĀ suggested that a journal āenĀcourages scrappiness. Things neednāt be finished, just stored, the way one might āstoreā a five-dollar bill in a trouĀser pocket in the closet … Continue reading →