The Hidden Art | Writing Prose and Poetry

A Vulnerable and Humanizing Work

Lesser Ury, Woman at a Writing-Desk (1898)

“What can you write? Letters could well come first of all. We all have someone waiting for a letter, and each of us has someone thinking about him or her and wishing the mail would bring some sort of word, some message.”

—Edith Shaeffer

I felt particularly pierced in this chapter by Edith’s encouragement and instr…