What is "Doom Eager"?

Lorrie Moore, from "Better and Sicker"
"Martha Graham speaks of the Icelandic term "doom eager" to denote that ordeal of isolation, restlessness, caughtness and artistic experiences when he or she is sick with an idea. When a writer is doom eager, the writing won't be sludge on the page; it will give readers -- and the writer, of course, is the very first reader -- an experience they've never had before, or perhaps a little and at last the words for an experience they have."

Monday, November 23, 2009

Less is More

I've started packing the house today. We'll be moving soon, and I am facing the terrifying fact that all our stuff has to go somewhere. Moving from a 2,400 square-foot house to a 1,600 square-foot apartment, we certainly cannot take it all. I keep thinking, how did we get all this junk?

Today's topic: Less is More

With my rambling ways, I'm not the person to give writing advice on scaling down the verbage. This article comes from the helpful folks at writetodone.com: The Elegant Art of Writing Less.
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