Air and Light and Time: Pruning Your Writing Projects for a Better Harvest

By Sue Repko

This summer, I had set aside space for five tomato plants, envisioning an abundance of red and gold fruit come July. While I had been camping, hiking, and wordsmithing far from home for the better part of a month, they had grown furiously. Their branches spread wide across narrow paths, partially covering the eggplants on one side and parsley, basil, and chives on the other. The cages grumbled under the weight of the plants, leaning into one another, entangled.   

Now it wa...