Posted on July 28, 2010 1 Comment
Until the middle of the last week, I was on a great writing kick. I was doing a lot of writing, and enjoying it. The words were flowing easily, the pieces I had not yet figured out were coming into place, and the project that had seemed daunting and had worried me that I’d bitten […]
Posted on July 22, 2010 4 Comments
Feedback was a new experience for me when I started going to my writing group. My creative writing classes weren’t at a point where we’d done critiquing yet. I’ve never been very good at taking critiquing advice with a single grain of salt. This is most likely related to my problem of over-salting food when […]
Posted on July 21, 2010 2 Comments
And I don’t mean in the Nike slogan sort of way. Well, maybe I do mean in the Nike slogan sort of way. This summer has been a real learning experience for me about how and why I write. I started the summer wondering if I even liked writing. What made me choose to get […]
Posted on June 5, 2010 1 Comment
I was watching Empire Strikes Back last night. Why? Well, because every so often I need to escape to the Star Wars universe. I know, that sounds funny. I escape to a galaxy far, far away where they are at galactic civil war and people are killed frequently by Force choking. Yes, events and circumstances […]
Posted on April 28, 2010 3 Comments
Work on Monday was solid with appointments, as is expected at the end of the semester. This is always good and bad. A fellow MFA came in for help on a paper for a lit class (it’s a generally accepted truth that most of us MFAs struggle in our lit classes). We went over her […]
Posted on April 21, 2010 2 Comments
Nope, not dead. School is just sucking up my soul and some random zombie I think has been feasting on my brains. Ask my roommate; I’ve been leaving things out and forgetting things more than usual. I need this semester to be over and have a glorious 3 months off. Which leads me to my […]