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Tag Archives: Writing
NaNoFeed: getting in shape for the marathon
Tonight I’m at the Municipal Liaisons’ write-in at Your Mom’s Basement in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. It’s dark and windy outside, with the neon of the strip mall showing in the darkness across the street. Earlier we had lowering grey … Continue reading
NaNoFeed: In honor of a new writing year
I was a student, and then worked with students, for enough years that each new quarter or semester marked a new schedule, and therefore an opportunity for thinking about how I was going to structure my time. Talking with a … Continue reading
Goals: And Now a Word from Our Alien Overlords
Goals, Inside the Jump, Lost Pissarro Continue reading
Tuesday write-in and new Ship’s Heart excerpt!
Here I am out in White Bear Lake at Your Mom’s Basement, a gaming cafe where Tuesday nights see tournaments for Magic, the Gathering, among other tabletop and computer games. (Absolutely awesome for random snippets of arcana from someone else’s … Continue reading
Genre Trouble: The Genre Queer Manifesto (For Young Writers Who Have Contemplated the Genre Straitjacket, When the Story is Enough)
(For Stephanie, on the occasion of her MFA.)In November 2010, I finished my first ever NaNo novel, the first one that had a completed story arc, the first one that I could hand over to beta readers. I sent it … Continue reading
Meanwhile, in another part of the cosmos (Live from the Tuesday write-in: Ship’s Heart)
One of the delights of being an independent writer is that you can write in whatever order you like. My friends and I caught the trilogy bug, but I decided to write book 2 first. Now I am writing book … Continue reading
Bricklaying: slow start to a new novel (Ship’s Heart)
Some writing is like flying: an exhilarating natural process that nonetheless feels like pure magic. Some writing proceeds at walking pace, like a conversation. And some writing is work: writing down one sentence after another, like laying bricks. It’s not … Continue reading
Writing in Community: the mirror of friends, and the backward glance
Two weeks ago, I learned about a writing grant opportunity, with about a week to put together an application. I struggled, but I didn’t make the deadline. The project that most needed outside help was also the project that was … Continue reading
Goals: Beginning Again
Last night my colleague Becca Patterson and I attended a reading for graduating MFA students at Hamline University in St. Paul. I had the pleasure of hearing a piece that I’d read in an early draft, recognizable still but with … Continue reading
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