This morning, I read Evan Roskos’s Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets, which, appropriately, had me thinking about Walt Whitman. Look guys, my relationship with literature is a bit fraught. I have read parts of Leaves of Grass over the years, but they didn’t sink into my psyche or anything. They’ve sunk into the [...]
Archive of posts filed under the writing category.
a little bit about writing
Last week was an unusually social one for me. On Thursday, I had dinner with a friend from college. We talked about every person who ever lived in our dorm – Larzelere Hall. Except maybe Andrew Dost. I don’t remember if he came up. But other than Mr. Dost, if you lived in Larzy, we [...]
links i love
What Should Children Read? I realize that complaining about the Common Core is SO last year at this point… but wow, it is SO WEIRD. This New York Times opinion piece is a good primer of how the Common Core standards interact with children’s literature, and how maybe that isn’t an awful thing. As someone [...]
paper journal
This year I am challenging myself to keep a paper diary that is not just a collection of frustrations, complaints, and private anxiety. As a person who usually only writes in a journal in times of great frustration, complaint, and private anxiety, this is quite a challenge. Especially because I am not necessarily in the [...]
morning pages
I first learned about Morning Pages four years ago, when my fiction writing started to feel stressful, when I was getting ready to go to grad school, when I was feeling torn between a creative and professional life. The Morning Pages are part of Julia Cameron’s Artist’s Way – a longer plan for seeking creativity [...]
a lesson learned writing
One thing I have learned this semester: Writing for publication = so very different than any writing I have done so far. I’ve been writing for a few professional blogs this semester and writing some book reviews for print publications. While I’m an old hat at writing for myself in this white blog box, I [...]
reading wishlist: the books i like to write
There are 6 books standing between me and the End Of Grad School. I’ve already read 4. THERE ARE ONLY TWO BOOKS STANDING BETWEEN ME AND THE END OF GRAD SCHOOL!?!!!! We have already talked about how I have no idea what I am going to be doing post-May-2012. I’m sure I will be doing [...]
writing, recharged
I am thinking a lot about writing, lately. Maybe because it’s November. Maybe because I’m always thinking a lot about writing. It’s been a long time since I’ve worked on a long, fiction project, but I am still writing. I write every day, actually. Emails. Entries. Papers. Paper journalling. This stuff counts, I think. And [...]
NaNoWriMo Diaries – Day 40
Date: December 10, 2010 Day: 40 Goal Word Count: 50,000 (and then some) Current Word Count: 25,016 Progress Report: NaNoWriMo, you have bested me yet again. Last time I checked in, I was crawling out of the cave of paper-writing – I was behind on my wordcount, fatigued, and oh guess what: there were MORE [...]
NaNoWriMo Diaries: Day 16
Date: November 16, 2010 Day: 16 Goal Word Count: 26,667 Current Word Count: 19,650 Progress Report: Holy crap. I am behind. So during my last report, things were already flagging. This past week, I kept coming up short – 300, 600 words short – and the next day always felt worse. I was happy to [...]
