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
On Writing
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!