
One is improvising when one writes, and you pick up in the same way a musician starts to improvise and detect the inner structure of what he’s playing — that’s the way it works in the writing of a novel. You pick up the beat.
— Robert Stone
picture book and middle-grade author
An old poet friend of mine, Clayton Eshleman, also thought of his writing as jazz improvisation. He called his poems “core meanders.” They meander but come back to a core.
I love that idea, Mark!