The Sputter: The Monster Under Every Writer’s Bed (and how you can fight it) By: Amanda McCarthy LRR, March 3, 2017February 8, 2025 It is nine-thirty on a Monday night. Usually, you’re not a last-minute-poet. But tonight, your midnight deadline is drowning under pages and pages of beginning lines that, at this point, sound more like the humming of a garbage disposal than poetry. You do really well under pressure, so generally this… Continue Reading