This website and blog exists to reflect on writing craft and encourage other writer esp. emerging writers. A key component of writing is hope. Hope that I write something worth reading. Hope that I can finish what I start. Hope that after collecting rejection letters someone will publish it. I am drawn to stories and poems that have at least a sliver of hope. I find movies from the seventies difficult to watch because they lack hope. For me, bisons symbolize hope. My first pu