I’m teaching at two writing workshops this summer, in case you’re seeking some instruction… In June I’ll be teaching at the Yale Summer Writers’ Workshop. Info here. I’ll be the mystery instructor, and our workshops will focus on mystery and crime fiction. In July I’ll be…
I just read a great book about how fiction works in and on the brain, a great tool for writing to engage readers. Writing to engage readers, she says. Someone out there is going to argue that he or she doesn’t write for anyone but him- or…
I feel so grown up. I just submitted a proposal for a panel at next year’s AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs, I know there’s a W missing) conference. This is something that adults do. It’s not like I have Peter Pan syndrome. I have impostor…
And it’s November. Bam. I’m not doing NaNoWriMo, because I already have one writathon going, thank you, and it’s going pretty poorly (for me), even as it goes pretty well (for my students). It’s not like I couldn’t make time to do 750 words a day. It’s…
I had a migraine sneak up on me this afternoon, but it was nothing that a visiting writer, a cafe writing night with my class, a Coke, and a handful of Motrin couldn’t solve. The visiting writer was Tom Grimes, whose book Mentor I just read and…
Work, I think. I think I did a bunch of that. Wrote some, but not nearly enough. Am going to the Book Cellar today to write with friends. I hope some writing does get done, and not just some giggling. Otherwise, my students are going to be…
Well, it’s official. It’s fall. I’m wearing a fleece. I’m inside my house, wearing a fleece. It’s black because I’m in mourning for summer. O, summer. You had such a short life. You will be missed. Not much going on except, oh, major update on the teaching…
Busy. I was busy leading up to our vacation, and then crazy busy when I got back to work last week. People! I was only gone five working days! But school is about to start at Major U (the quarter system means they’re calendar is all effed…
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