I go back and forth on this: Listen to music while writing. Do not listen to music while writing. There’s an entire genre of music that I would consider perfect for writing, but the truth is that, when I’m writing at home on the backporch, I’m usually…
If you need a little pick me up, go watch this. Thanks to James for the link.
Just posted about my love (jealousy) of Alice Munro, but you’re not sitting at school or at work with a copy of her book, are you? No, you aren’t. How about I do some linky-linky and you guys can pretend to be listening in a meeting or…
43. Strong Poison– Dorothy L. Sayers44. Sexing the Cherry– Jeanette Winterson (Wow, could two books be less alike?) 45. Selected Stories– Alice Munro….or, um, actually. That’s a lie. I’m thisclose to being done with this book, but not quite. These so-called short stories are like little mini…
Yeah, sorry. I was chugging along pretty well there for a while—perhaps too chuggy. One friend of mine said it was “hard to keep up.” Sorry. I’m trying to find the right balance of posting, linking, storytelling. I’m also job searching (hello to everyone who has my…
Ahoy! Another short story by yours truly. Originally published by After Hours, a nice little magazine you should check out, buy an issue of, and submit to. Run by Roosevelt University alumni! Copyright, etc., etc. Lori Rader Day. What You Don’t Know So here we are. There’s…
Milestone reached today: I’ve tapped 60, 000 words into a single Word file. I’m not, sadly, done with this file, this so-called novel. I figure I have about 20,000 left to go, and then a lot of cleaning up to do, before I can start to feel…
Don’t expect the 1,000 words to be mine. Given this assignment, I’d probably produce 5,000 words. At least. I am, as my MFA thesis advisor once said, wordy. But I thought this post was rather well done and succinct. A good place to go back to when…
Also known as: I’m busy writing, so here’s a lazy post. Go read the only story I have online at the moment, a crime story that had to be 3,000 words or less. I only mention the word limit because, in a perfect world, I bet I…
I couldn’t get Ursa to wear it. I couldn’t get her to look at the camera, either. So here is my brand new University of Three Lakes sweatshirt in “honey.” I almost posted the second one only. I figured this would piss of my friend Stacy, since,…
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