Great Endings, From The Beginning
I did a dumb thing this week. After swearing up and down for months that we were going to get rid of cable, my husband and I finally pulled the trigger. Because who needs it? Waste of money. Bigger waste of time….
Category: Craft Discussion
Friday Feast: Down in the Dumps Edition
My fellow editors must have been in the dumps this week because I received a slew of links related to writer confidence, depression, and questions of what constitutes a “real writer.” Or maybe the good people of the interwebs are…
Why Write Fiction?
One of the more interesting classes I’ve taken during the course of my writing career was a class on novel structure in my MA program. We read six novels, all of which had unique structures, some wholly fitting of the…
What Keeps My Writing Alive: The Long-Distance Free Write
Belle Brett has just written a great blog post on what keeps her writing alive, and I wanted to add onto that idea. For me, it’s exchanging free writes with a friend in Virginia. Like the long-distance romance or long-distance…
Writing the (Quiet) Omniscient Narrator by Celeste Ng
If you’re in the Boston area, please join us at Craft on Draft tonight, April 7th, at Trident Booksellers and Café, where authors Celeste Ng, Christopher Castellani, and Daphne Kalotay discuss their point of view choices. Below, Celeste gives us…
Friday Feast: 12 Links for Friday the 13th
My primary association with Friday the 13th — as is the case for many of us, I suspect — is Jason Voorhees. But there are also those who are superstitious about making travel plans on this unluckiest of Fridays. Many…