Writing Problems: Failure

Glück, Auden, Doctorow, Martin, Coleridge, Beckett

Writing poetry gets more difficult the longer I do it. I confront the blank sheet of paper and have to fill it with—what? Myself? My energy? My thoughts? The longer I do it, the more internal and external pressures I face: to make something better, different, or more interesting. 

I often tell my editorial services clients that “perfection is the enemy o…