When I finished "Radiant Losses" I was determined to write a new book of poems in which each poem was definitely part of a larger concept, as opposed to being merely a gathering of individual pieces.
The Welsh poet Owen Sheers has said that having to avoid certain words forced his mind to work like a "hyper-speed thesaurus", constantly searching for words he could say, and John Updike said, "You write because you don't talk very well … Maybe one of the reasons I was determined to write was because I wasn't an orator".
Despite the setback, I was determined to write another book and thus I became a one-woman book-proposal factory.
I hadn't asked for the job, but now that it was mine, I was determined to write pure wedding poetry.
While I had considered optioning the rights to the documentary, I didn't have the requisite funds, nor the clout to do so, so I was determined to write a script that didn't structurally or dramatically hinge on the documentary.
This time I was determined to write pop melodies".
For many years, I've been determined to write and then publish a book.
If I sit at my computer, determined to write a New Yorker story I won't get beyond the first sentence.
That morning, I woke up and vowed to myself that I would write poetry like this man, and that's when I became somebody who was determined to write poems relating to my own life".
Back at Wesleyan, Lord was determined to write.
On this release, he determined to write his memoirs.
