Mary Oliver’s writing is timeless. A poet who dispensed a lot of writing advice in her life, she has a few golden nuggets I’m compelled to pass on.
The tips are ostensibly about poetry, but what writing is better than poetry? Let’s shoot for the moon…
Lists, and verbs, will carry you many a dry mile.
Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.
The s…
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