The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Book Reviews!
The narrator of The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera is familiar to me. He’s that boy who broke my heart. The cool one who could mold and shape ... Read more
Fiction Excercise: Pick an object you’ve encountered today and write a piece of short fiction that includes that object.
Prompts
What Liz wrote: Dry-mouth, her neck in a knot, she kicked her foot a little to the right to check. Was he still there? Shit. He was. She stretched her ... Read more
New Year Reflections
On writing
Every single year I write a New Year letter outlining my goals and desires for the coming year. You can be sure that this year, I have them. I have ... Read more
An orgy of writers?
On writing
“Overcapacity has been something generally acknowledged across the writing industry for at least 10 years. In a 2002 essay in The New York Times, the onetime best-selling novelist and story ... Read more
Interpreter Of Maladies
Book Reviews!
I tend to read with my head more than my heart. I like to see how ideas develop through story and how writers put words together in interesting ways. It’s ... Read more
Play It As It Lays
Book Reviews!
Joan Didion’s Play It As It Lays is a short novel whose protagonist, Maria, is so out of touch with her own feelings that she does not even feel them ... Read more
NanoWrMo is at an end for 2008.
On writing
Only 40,000 words for me this year, but I’m happy with most of them.I’m back and planning to pay more attention to this neglected blog. I’m also combining my What ... Read more
What can I say? It’s National Novel Writing Month…
On writing
This is my fourth year and going into the second week, I think I have the lowest word count ever. Do you think it’s a coincidence that it also might ... Read more
Copyright News
Publishing
NY Times article on Google’s book scanning settlement. Interested in hiring me as a coach to get you boosted with your writing goals?Find free resources and information here.Some past posts ... Read more
Fight Scenes by Greg Bottoms
Book Reviews!
Okay, so Fight Scenes by Greg Bottoms was not my favorite book. I’m not quite sure if I can even explain it, but I think ultimately it comes down to ... Read more