Author Archives: William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

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About William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

Award-winning poet, playwright, and essayist. Author of three books of poetry, "Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass: Remembrance of Things Past and Present"; "Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats"; "The Black Feminine Mystique," and a novel, "Streets of Rage," written under his pen name Easy Waters. All four books are available on Amazon.com. Waters has over 25 years of experience in the criminal legal system. He is a change agent for a just society and a catalyst for change.

I haven’t called my Muse

Posted on January 21, 2011 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

Imagine not talking to your woman for three days? No, don’t imagine that. Imagine being alone, or at least not with that woman anymore — such is not writing the past couple of days. Will write tonight and over the … Continue reading →

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Inspiration — “Writing Every Day”

Posted on January 12, 2011 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

Just finished re-reading an essay entitled “Writing Every Day,” by Walter Mosley, in the March/April 2007 issue of Poets & Writers. Writing is a discipline.  It is far too easy, when writing is not one’s primary source of income, to … Continue reading →

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October 1, 2010 — Celebrating Fifty Years of Life

Posted on January 10, 2011 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

I saw the best minds of my generation drop out of school and get their education on the streets, in the schools of hard knocks: in group homes, reform schools, jails, reformatories and prisons.  They dropped out of schools that … Continue reading →

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The Novel Wants to be Born

Posted on January 10, 2011 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

The late great Bill Webber, President Emeritus of New York Theological Seminary, once told me that the closest a man comes to experiencing giving birth is writing a book.  Therefore, I wasn’t surprised that it took me nine months to … Continue reading →

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Excerpt from The Summer of Capri

Posted on January 5, 2011 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

No matter where we have been, no matter who we have become, no matter where we live now, there’s the place where we are from, where our roots are planted.  My roots are in Brooklyn.  I grew up in Brooklyn.  … Continue reading →

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Working on the P.I. Novel — The Summer of Capri

Posted on January 3, 2011 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

I believe I can fly! Work on the novel is going well.  Just wrote a scene, a flashback.  The main character, Alexander Jones, a P.I., is thinking about his brother, killed in a gang war in the mid-’70s.

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From EZ Waters

Posted on December 30, 2010 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

I am working on a novel that has been brewing in my mind for nearly 10 years.  I’m finally getting it out of my head and onto paper.  I am never more alive than when I am writing.  Writing is … Continue reading →

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