“When I start I have a pretty well developed idea what the book is about and how it ought to go, because generally I’ve been thinking about it and making notes for months if not years. Generally I have the ending in mind, usually the last paragraph almost verbatim. I begin at the beginning and […]
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Writing saved my life. Before I found writing I had exhausted all the other ways of being in the world that I knew about. But, as with anything that one makes entirely one’s own, I had to reinvent writing. I had to unravel everything I had been taught and wind it back up again, my […]
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Writers, mark your calendars for a truly remarkable conference. Unlike most writers’ conferences, you need not block out a week, merely a day, and that’s January 25th, 2014, when Making It in Changing Times Mini-Conference for Writers comes to Portland, Oregon. Learn practical valuable information that you can immediately put to use in your writing […]
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Take your writing, but not yourself seriously.
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January 25 Information is here.
Read the rest of this entry »“Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter’s deadness; harvest; orange, gold, amber; cool nights and the smell of fire. Our tree-lined streets are set ablaze, our kitchens filled with the smells of nostalgia: apples bubbling into sauce, roasting squash, cinnamon, nutmeg, cider, […]
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Stay tuned for details about another stellar one-day conference. Date: January 25 Where: Tabor Space, Portland, Oregon Keynote speaker: Karen Karbo Information: topnotch and designed to give writers an edge in a changing market.
Read the rest of this entry »“Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.” —Allegra Goodman
Read the rest of this entry »“Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything. … It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower […]
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