Write or Cut Bait

“Storytelling is probably only just a little bit older than fishing. . . . Have you ever been fishing? It’s unbelievably boring, so you have to do something.”

—Moe Bowstern, fisher-poet, “The Poets of Fishing Gather in Oregon,” NPR, Feb. 23, 2019.

 

   

• Editorial Comment: I come at it the opposite way: When the writing doesn’t work, I go fishing.

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