Monday, January 29, 2024

Words for Life

Choose vivid words to convey emotion. 

Foster connection between disparate images. 

Let each sentence inherit momentum from the one preceding it. 

Permit moments of compression alongside expansive meditation. 

Describe subjects affirmatively through their presence, activity, substance, and embodiment.

Balance abstraction with sensuous particularity. 

Avoid habitual similes.

Find beauty in brevity.

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