I will not rewrite them all here, but you must head over to Libba Bray‘s livejournal blog and check out her procrastination techniques which so mirror my own and those
That’s what Tom Gerace, chief executive of Gather.com called the writing contest sponsored by Touchstone books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Alas! If only I had a novel stashed
“Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.” – Bernard Malamud, interviewed for The Writer’s Desk by Jill Krementz What’s your way?
“Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.” – Bernard Malamud, interviewed for _The Writer’s Desk_ by Jill Krementz
According to Ohio State University English Professor, Lee K. Abbott, “You’ll need to write as much junk as you are tall before you’ll ever produce something that somebody will want
. . . when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it’s called golf. The memoir I’m writing about my father’s last year is
“The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is that you really want to say.”
– Mark Twain’s Notebook, 1902-1903
First, the good news. The semester’s over. Aimee Liu, my Advisor in the Goddard College low-residency MFA program in Creative Writing, accepted the second draft of my second attempt at
On Saturday, I sent my last packet of writing to my Advisor concluding my first semester in Goddard’s low-residency MFA program in Creative Writing. It felt anti-climatic. While the book
I was in New Mexico from November 8 through 15th to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Natalie Goldberg’s best-selling book, Writing Down the Bones. Now that I’m back home, I’ve
