by Elizabeth | Apr 21, 2015 | Uncategorized
Anne Lamott just posted some thoughts on FB for her birthday, including the idea that the opposite of faith isn’t doubt; the opposite of faith is certainty. What writing lacks is internal certainty. To face the unscrolling blue line across the paper, a thin thread,...
by Elizabeth | Apr 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
In the mornings I write by hand. A writer friend who also has two young kids said, Why would you want to add an extra step? But I am looking for every way to evade the voice of doom and doubt, to connect directly to the writer, this being in me, unexpected even after...
by Elizabeth | Apr 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
I went to the Woodstock Writer’s Festival in March. My favorite part was Tim Donahue’s interview with Abigail Thomas. I didn’t take notes, so this is what I remember: Somehow, it came up that Abigail had recently tried to read Kerouac’s On The Road but couldn’t...
by Elizabeth | Apr 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
I go volunteer in the classroom on Wednesday mornings, and recently I’ve been teaching story writing to my kids’ second- and third-grade class. Yesterday I wrote out a paragraph with six parts for them to fill in as a way to launch a story, and it struck me as...
by Elizabeth | Apr 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
Website – Tropes for Cheating. Google – TV Tropes New Authors Seminar – persistence is the #1 secret to breaking in, Blake Crouch – 110 rejections before publication Sean Chercover – 23 rejections, (he knew someone). His biggest mistake, not finishing the book....
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