Category: Writing Life
Literary Dream #1 07.20.2018
I am attending a writer’s conference, a small gathering of ~200 writers. I enter the room and find a seat. As I’m waiting for the…
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Lawn Care
I find it hard to care about lawn care. My lawn looks like I am a small-scale farmer and my crop is dandelions. I would…
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No One Can Write That
Here's a writer's pitfall that Dan Barden warned us of recently. But he's too late. I've already seen the bottom. We read books. We devour…
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Only Now Learning How to Write
I have started the last class of my MFA program. My last graduate writing workshop is three weeks gone. But there is a hitch. There…
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Sisters and Successors
A pair of weeks ago I went to a reading by the author Jonathan Franzen. He read from his new novel (just finished, not yet…
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