By Beth Kephart There has to be a spark. How obvious it sounds. How impossible to manufacture. How easy to gauge—the sparked or the spark-less. The book, essay, or poem rising out of some undeniable, unquenchable human need, or its opposite: the diligent, the dutiful, the biddable, the pro forma, the project emerging from the […]

Write Only What You Must (And Never Force Your Sentences)