Bill Kimzey

I’m thinking about memory right now.  Different types of memory … maybe I rank the types from most vivid to least.  (I’m trying to depict i...

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - that you’d thought spec...

From my reading couple of weeks ago: [Boldwood] had no light and careless touches in his constitution, either for good or for evil. Stern...

“If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.”  ―  Joseph Campbell "Enter the forest at the darkest p...

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...