Staring is necessary.
A Room Of Your Own, Memoir, On writing
My IB students are reading The Things They Carried now and just finished The Great Gatsby. The order in which you teach books brings to light different aspects of them. ... Read more
fiction
Don’t push it. That’s my advice this week. Happy writing!
A Room Of Your Own, Be here now., Goals, On writing
Much better this week. Not perfect, but better. I wrote six of seven days. Slowly, but that’s my pace right now. I mostly got to bed by nine on the ... Read more
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Book Reviews!
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout My rating: 4 of 5 stars I needed a book like this. An uncomplicated book that in spite of how busy and ... Read more
Yep. It’s a first draft, all right.
A Room Of Your Own, On writing
This week, I finished up another draft of a manuscript that is in nearing the publishing phase of the editing process, then finished a read-through of a first draft of ... Read more
Learning from a confidence crash: Reflections from a writing retreat.
A Room Of Your Own, Be here now.
I started this blog as a way to keep myself writing. It was the same kind of desperate attempt to build good habits that causes people to talk their significants ... Read more
One true sentence? Considering Hemingway.
A Room Of Your Own, On writing
My seniors are reading Hemingway, so, of course, I am rereading him too. And thinking about him and his oft-quoted advice to writers. Just one true sentence? The truest sentence ... Read more
The Brothers K, by David James Duncan
Book Reviews!
The Brothers K by David James Duncan My rating: 5 of 5 stars It took me just over three weeks to finish this book, and I’m a slow reader. Record ... Read more
My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante
Book Reviews!
My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One by Elena Ferrante My rating: 3 of 5 stars I finished this book a while ago and have been thinking about what to ... Read more