Lisa RiveroI’m frustrated. Much of my writing is going well, but one big project continues to elude me: the book based on my great aunt’s diaries. I write snatches and scenes, try out points of view, past and present tense, different voices. I ping pong between thinking the work should be historical fiction, non-fiction, creative non-fiction, …
It’s Bookmark Friday! I’m going to save The Personal Art of Submissions, Part II for tomorrow so that I can official start today something I’ve had in mind for awhile: sharing some of the terrific blogs posts I’ve run across this week to bookmark for later reading. These pieces have within them even more resources …
Does submitting your writing for publication ever get easier? I’ve been thinking about that question since reading this comment from Magnificent Minimalist in response to my goal of submitting one short story per month this year: “Congratulations on having the courage to submit a piece of writing! I applaud you! I’m guessing that you’ve done …
I can’t let February 2nd go by without noting James Joyce’s birthday. Yesterday I had the pleasure of reading his Dubliners short story “Araby” to 20 college students (all of whom, by coincidence, were male, which for this particular story seemed fitting): NORTH RICHMOND STREET being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour …
The blizzard of Twenty Eleven caught few unaware. Eager meteorologists tracked and broadcast in minute detail its conception, gestation and birth, then, like proud parents, kept us apprised of the monstrous infant’s first steps and howls, so that by the time the angry toddler tore through the Midwest, we had already closed our schools and …