When I am in a GOOD rhythm and I have total freedom of time, my typical writing schedule is to wake up, do yoga or meditate, eat breakfast, and then WRITE! I like to start with free writing or spillage (no censor, no plan) for thirty minutes. Then I like to do some sort of writing exercise; usually I’ll pull a line from a poem I love as a jumping off point and work with that. Then, I pull out poems I am working on; either I go back in my notebook and read through what I have written and find something I want to develop, or I pull out a piece that I have started and go back to work on it.—Elana Bell

Photo by Jamie Clifford.

• This quote comes from my interview with Elana Bell.
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