I am working on a non-fiction proposal (something that is, perhaps ironically, a bit more involved than a marriage proposal). What is the first thing I do when I want to write a book? I begin to devour other books. There’s an amazing organization in our town that will funnel them to me, a kind […]
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Interiority is what is going on in the minds of your characters: thoughts, memories, ideas, daydreams. Interiority is what is “inside” versus what is external or exteriority: action, gesture, setting, description. Writing interiority is at first pass, for some of us, easier and more pleasurable than recording imagined or remembered scenes. Is that true for you? Interiority is that
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These days, we spend our impulse to communicate quickly. It comes upon us and we can hop over to that rectangular box on Facebook and post that thought, pin up the photograph, forward the quote. The impulse dissipates, or we wait for the “likes,” the comments, we scroll through and make our own. It’s delicious,
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Summertime. No childcare (in the form of school). We did three weeks of camp and now those are over. Mostly, the kids are around, reading, playing, fighting, bored, or on adventures with us—whether that’s playing ball in the field down the road or taking a road trip across the state. There’s a measure of chaos
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pictures of Dora Diamant The wonderful author and human being Harriet Chessman tagged me in a blog hop. What is a blog hop? A series of questions are posed to an author, who answers them about a work-in-progress or a published work. The answerer then tags a few more writers, and the
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Last week, in my Monday evening Craft Class, one of my writers was sharing that she is surprised at how well her writing group is responding to the material she is creating for her current project because as she’s writing it, she keeps thinking it is just terrible. I got all excited. “That’s that voice!” I said. “It comes
Here’s a three minute video about concrete character desire, with an example from The History of Love by Nicole Krauss. It’s powerful to see what a character wants played out in concrete, literal terms, demonstrated in the actions he’ll take to accomplish this desire. Try it yourself! I also want to talk
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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee posted a gripe list recently on Facebook. She’s the fiction editor of the Kartika Review, a “national literary arts magazine that publishes Asian Pacific Islander American fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and art,” and she’s been weeding through the slush pile. The way to have publishing success–besides being willing to collect rejections and
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