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….
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….
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…
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…
After a writers’ conference, I want to rush off and write everything before I lose the lessons and momentum. But I also want to consume the books I’ve purchased and heard attendees and instructors refer to in conference sessions. With…
Herewith are my scattered and mentally fried moments from this past weekend’s Muse and The Marketplace in Boston. First off, major kudos to Eve Bridburg, Chris Castellani, Sonya Larson, Grant Patch, and all the staff at Grub for pulling off…
Re Jane, Patricia Park’s Postmodern take on Jane Eyre, transports us from Flushing, Queens to Seoul and back in a quest for personal identity. For Jane, a half-Korean, half-American orphan, Flushing is the place she’s been trying to escape from…