Posted on October 11, 2010 1 Comment
The woes of being a multi-drafter. I can start a story over and over and over again as long as I don’t have an ending. The moment I have an ending, however, suddenly I just want the beginning to magically poof and be perfect. This is not the case. I had a beginning, one I […]
Posted on September 29, 2010 1 Comment
In my current workshop, one of my fellow classmates finds the innuendo in just about anything. You know the type, the person who says the innocent scene had either a creep factor or major sexual tension. It makes the majority of the rest of you go *blink blink*. But then, there’s always one other person. […]
Posted on August 17, 2010 Leave a Comment
I have always had one very crucial weakness to my writing: I love beginnings. I love writing beginnings, I love reading beginnings, and sometimes a beginning is all I need to satisfy me. That’s not always true, of course. And there is nothing better than I book you can finish, close up, and say, “Wow, […]
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 […]