So I snuck away from my real world a few days ago and drove north to San Rafael, and waited in line for what seemed to be hours. When the double doors opened I gave the woman behind the table my name and she handed me a yellow ticket. A few minutes later, there I […]
Evening Out with Joseph Anton: by Devi Laskar Read More »
It’s been a crazy fall so far, as I uprooted my family and myself a couple of months ago and moved across these United States and am trying to: 1. Get unpacked; 2. Find my things that help me write or paint; 3. Kick the kids to the curbs in front of their respective schools;
Boot camp & hitting the “send” button: by Devi Laskar Read More »
“Writing is very easy. All you do is sit in front of a typewriter keyboard until little drops of blood appear on your forehead.” –Walter W. “Red” Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning sportswriter. In light of how ‘easy’ the writing process is, I’ve started calling what I’m doing right now, the-finding-of-the-story-part-of-writing, as a “Zero Draft.” John R.
Zero Draft: (Guest Blog) by Chris O’Brien Read More »
The writing may not be on the wall, so to speak, but it’s definitely in the air: Today’s posting is a mini-round-up of all the writing-related things that I’ve noticed recently, books recently published by authors whose works I greatly admire. Writing consistently and forming a “writing habit” has been difficult lately, but I’m trying
Roundabout September 2012: by Devi Laskar Read More »
When I was a kid, there were stories that I never tired of hearing or reading. One of my earliest memories starts with the sound of my paternal grandmother’s voice retelling the Mahabharata, and the exiled Pandavas living in a house made entirely of wax. One of the first stories I remember reading are the
“Go To” List: by Devi Laskar Read More »
Writing is a journey and a difficult one at that. It is often a struggle to write, and it is often a treacherous trek to establish the habit of writing consistently. The rewards are amazing and tangible: if we do it, we end up with good work, tangible pages that can go toward completing a
Learning NOT to listen: by Devi Laskar Read More »
Recently, Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Visit From the Goon Squad, regular New Yorker contributor, and New York Times journalist spoke at the Chilmark Community Center on Martha’s Vineyard where she (like me) has spent countless Augusts vacationing with her family being inspired by the natural beauty of the island. I was
A visit from Jennifer Egan: (Guest Blog) by Julie Rappaport Read More »
Richard Hugo wrote in The Triggering Town, of poetry: “Once a spectator said, after Jack Nicklaus had chipped a shot in from a sand trap, ‘That’s pretty lucky.’ Nicklaus is supposed to have replied, ‘Right. But I notice the more I practice, the luckier I get.’ If you write often, perhaps every day, you will
“Triggering: the Writing Life: by Devi Laskar Read More »
I’ve always loved history: this is what happened and this is why you are here. And I’ve always loved the 19th century because it was like a great-grandmother, animating the lives of the oldest people I’ve known, the ones who taught my parents. When listening to my grandmother talk about my mother I soon became
Aunt Serena’s Legacy: (Guest Blog) by Melanie Lee Read More »
What I learned from reading the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel laureate and Columbian author of such perfect books such as One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera: to leave every last drop of inspiration on the page. My favorite book by Garcia Marquez is a slim story called “Chronicle
Chronicle of a Story Foretold: by Devi Laskar Read More »
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