"How to write: want to. Stop not writing. Sit down and think of one story you MIGHT be able to tell badly…”

It was the mid-1980s. We were three writers teaching writing. Joy, KLujan, and I shared an office, our ideas, our frustrations, and our love of writing.

Here I am—back on Memory Lane. A search of old file cabinets revealed the name of the owner of Bridge Street Books & Coffeehouse—Peter Dumont—and one of his poems, which I shall shamefacedly share.

Hello Readers and Bloggers and Writers:

I’m taking a bit of a break this month-end to prepare for my Lit Salon Talk: Reading and Writing Historical Fiction, featuring my novel, Prairie Madness, Conspiracy at Fort Union.

“Is it time yet?” I whisper loudly. ‘In a stage whisper,’ Nanna would say. I am poised with the red table lamp, its cord dangling from the outlet between the two kitchen windows, in one hand, and my library book under my arm.

Here we are. Poetry Month 2022. This is a poem I “keypunched” when I worked as a keypunch operator at Harbor Service Bureau, Wilmington, CA; circa 1968.

In thinking about blogging and, thus, about sharing thoughts and ideas, I offer this simple advice to writers and readers:

“Why do I read?

by Gary Paulsen

A FEW FAVORITE WORDS ABOUT WORDS

Helen Keller sums it up: “Literature is my Utopia.”

Once nimble-fingered, strong, and knuckle-crackable, my hands have become autonomous lethal weapons always at the ready to attack my sense of self, to confound me, and to turn an innocent, heretofore intuitive movement into a booby trap.

APRIL IS FOR WORD LOVERS

The Las Vegas Literary Salon joins the rest of the country in celebrating the joy of poetry.

Hello and welcome to Patti’s blog – all things [except for the occasional digression] books, reading, writing… Yes, I am one of the founding members of the Las Vegas Literary Salon (LVLS).

Welcome to the newly established Las Vegas (NM) Literary Salon (LVLS).

Not to be confused with any salons in the “other Las Vegas,” the Las Vegas Literary Salon (LVLS) is located in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Great Rocky Mountains and is devoted to writers, readers, and thinkers of the Greater Las Vegas area.