Tag: composing

Ghost Writer

I hear voices. Scornful voices. In my head. They whisper –“You’re not a real writer.” ”No one’s published your book. You’ve never written for the New York Times or the New Yorker. Real writers…”  I do my best to ignore them and keep writing. The same voices used to say, “You’re not a real composer. You’ve never received…


Practice Makes….More Practice

FLOW I’ve long been fascinated by the mystery of creativity. I witnessed the home births of my sons, the uncanny, inexplicable, OK, miraculous fact of holding against your chest a being that a half hour ago was invisible, silent, sightless, unbreathing. Something you helped make, that’s part of you, yet also completely separate. The ultimate magician’s…


Music Maker

Music Maker We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams – O’Shaughnessy, Elgar When I was young I burned with desire to make things with my hands. I wanted my father to teach me to hammer and saw but he showed me his big hands and said, “All I can do…


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