Michael Allyn Wells

“Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials.” —Paul Rudnick

Yes, thanks for asking.  I have a fair amount of new reading material. Later I will go into details. You may have heard that AWP has f...

“Remove ‘shoulds’ from your vocabulary this year. Start your journey of self-love now.” —Kelly Martin 2019 and the whole decade tha...

I am trying to achieve some assimilation of yoga into my daily living, and into my writing.  Yoga takes discipline for starters. ...

Dear Reader: It's been an extensive lava eruption in Hawaii, a 5 & 8 Record for my  Giants (who play tonight), an improving lef...

Another week already?  How does that happen?  I'm off to the confessional, come along. Dear Reader: It's been two surreal wee...

Bullet Journal Dear Reader: It has been two weeks since my last confession. Two weeks of way too much Donald Trump exposure. Pleas...

Dear Reader... Forgive me as I rush in at the 11th hour to make my confession. It's been a week of highs and lows since my last conf...

Daniel Kalder writing in the Guardian takes on the matter of writers who self-censor in a fascinating piece that opened my eyes with a bi...

I have only the faintest delineation of Thanksgiving 2011 and Christmas 2011.  This emanates largely because I've been ill during both. ...

When I was reading Laurie Rachkus Uttich's Why We Write in the Sept/Oct Poets and Writers it struck me how important observation is ...

 It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.  ~   Francois Rabela...

Writing away - in free write while listening to my playlist. No care given to what comes out - it's choppy and all over the map and that...

Before I delve into this, let me reference a post on The Book of Kells  where Kelli Agodon shares a list of How to Feel Miserable as an ...

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, ...

It has occurred to me that I have a growing number of early drafts in journal and saved in various places that I need to get organized bette...

Some great advise from Robert Peake's workshop - “Tactics for Sneaky Poets” posted on his site. Some of my favorite advise: Use cons...

A few things in no particular order of importance... It's banned Book Week and in recognition thereof, the following quote by Justice ...

Ink on paper is as beautiful to me as flowers on the mountains; God composes, why shouldn't we? ~Terri Guillemets

It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly.  - C. J. Cherryh