During last month’s Craft on Draft event three authors were on hand to discuss how they developed their unique settings. In addition to sharing their own work, Stephanie Gayle, Anjali Mitter Duva, and Patricia Park selected the event’s contest winner,…
The first full week of NaNoWriMo is coming to a close. How’d you folks do? Did you stay hydrated? Well fed? Well caffeinated (or not, for all you crazy kids who can’t stand the stuff)? No matter what your word…
I once thought I’d make a pretty good racecar driver. This isn’t like my other delusions, kickboxing or ice-carving, as I had a reason to believe in my driving skills. After all, my brother is a talented semi-pro racecar driver,…
I don’t “do” Halloween because I’m too lazy to think of a costume and like to go to bed at 10pm. I’d rather stay home in my pjs, drink wine, and watch The Great British Baking Show. I do “do” NaNoWriMo,…
The great thing about the first draft is that it can be as stupid as you want. All you have to do is type shit into the keyboard. Then, after 80k words (or, you know, whatever) and one month to…
Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies elbowed out some of its competition last Wednesday when the National Book Award announced its 2015 finalists, but of any writer I know, I don’t expect such adulation to go to Groff’s head. I first…