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…
This week, our links take you on the publishing lifecycle. No matter where you are in your writing career, there’s something here that (surely) you can relate to, be it the struggle to know your characters’ fears, the struggle to…
Here in Boston, GrubStreet’s Muse and the Marketplace conference is about to begin. I look forward to the Muse every year. What could be more fun? It’s like day camp for writers. Conferences are amazing places where writers can recharge,…
For me, the big-daddy, litmus-test, most-uncomfortable-question-of-all has always been: do I need to be a writer, or merely want to? The implication being that one’s legitimacy as a writer depends on a yes to first part of the question, a…
Critics. They’re everywhere: in our writing classes and writing groups, on the other side of an ISP, and sometimes (most of the time) in our own heads. The struggle is real, and this week’s links focus on people who have…