Wednesday, November 9, 2011

The Writing Life = A Game of Chutes and Ladders

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Writer Gae Polisner has a great blog post today about how our writing careers are like a long (cruel?) game of Chutes and Ladders.   It’s fu...
Tuesday, November 8, 2011

ISO Funny Stories About Tech Support

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Since I’m having weird computer problems at the moment, this call for submissions seems appropriate.   Pass it along to your favorite tech s...
Monday, November 7, 2011

"Autumn Harvest" on Redux

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Jane Delury's wonderful story "Autumn Harvest" will make you hungry!     Jacques crouches in his father’s garden, coaxing le...
Thursday, November 3, 2011

Work in Progress: How to Give an Excellent Reading

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I’ve been working with yet another fabulous Converse College low-res MFA thesis student this semester, and she’s preparing for her graduati...
Wednesday, November 2, 2011

What I'm Thinking about Today

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“All the knowledge I possess anyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.” ~Goethe “I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bon...
Tuesday, November 1, 2011

DC Map of the (Literary) Stars!

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An announcement from DC poet/editor/literary impresario Kim Roberts: A new online resource for lovers of literature and history has been la...
Monday, October 31, 2011

The Story of a First Novel & A New Poem on Redux

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I wrote a short piece for VCU’s blog about writing that first novel.   The bottom line as I see it is that the path to that “first novel” c...