Bill Kimzey

Read Ezra Pound’s List of 23 “Don’ts” For Writing Poetry (1913) in  Poetry  | January 30th, 2014 4. Do not retell in mediocre verse wha...

Butcher's Chapter 9:  Plot and Character. The emotions must harden into will and the will express itself in deed. Hamlet: Events are...

I don’t try to reconstruct empty spots. I’ve been vigorously encouraged by various editors to fictionalize. They would say, It must have be...

I added more content today; about Brown and my daughter.  I hope soon I can start pruning, so the story won't be too vast to be grasped ...

I wrote myself full circle.  Around 11 I panicked.  I found new content that was evocative, and that I had to find a way to add that to the ...

Still Butcher on Aristotle: Chapter 6 "The Function of Tragedy" The action in a tragedy should be grave and great, and at the cl...

I finished Chapter 4 of S. H. Butcher's essay on Aristotle's Poetics .  I'm pausing from my rewrite to collect my thoughts.  I w...