My current writing book (Plot and Structure, James Scott Bell, I highly recommend it) talks about finding your themes. Writing about what I care about. It’s not new advice, no. Pretty much any writing book worth a glance will advise pouring your passion into your work. So maybe it’s just serendipity that the question went […]
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Do you know we’re still at war? Of course you do. But do you really know it? Unless you or a close loved one is over there, I’m betting not. I know I forget. There are days I don’t think at all about what’s going on over there. I’m caught up in my life, my
In four years, I have not missed so much time. But what can I do? I am sick. My stomach hurts, my head hurts, and I can’t maintain six straight hours of consciousness. I guess I feel guilty because I am writing. I’ve been eating toast and chicken broth for three days, I can’t fix
Tonight we closed at our group. I’ve felt for a while that we didn’t need to be there anymore, but we loved the people, and Hope insisted she did need it, so… But a couple groups ago we got two new families, and it was so crowded I decided we needed to make room. Death
Birthday successfully completed. *whew* I don’t care for this culture of “spoil ’em rotten,” though. I expressed to friends that Hope wasn’t getting much for her birthday, she just tends to break things and do awful things and then go back to toy-less amusing herself. (so I give her one thing not likely to get
Quoting from this site: For reasons spelled out below, the poet Sharon Olds has declined to attend the National Book Festival in Washington, which, coincidentally or not, takes place September 24, the day of an antiwar mobilization in the capital. Olds, winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award and professor of creative writing at
Too much of a good thing makes KD too sleepy to write. Today was payday, we went to Target for some necessities, and Chili’s for some pampering. Which was also a necessity. Bly describes their burgers as ‘crack-burgers,’ they are so addictively awesome. She’s right. The mudslide pie was pretty damn good too. g’night