WRITING PROCESSStory: I’ve got it.
Me: Got what?
Story: Martha’s mother. Her name isn’t Helen. It’s Delia.
Me: Um… excuse me?
Story: Yeah yeah yeah… it’s Delia. Helen is her mother. Her and Toby’s.
Me: But the story is almost done and it’s Helen throughout two whole stories. It’s not just a matter of replacing the name, you know. Helen [...]
Archive for May, 2007
A Conversation with my Story
Posted in Uncategorized on May 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Think of Trees
Posted in Uncategorized on May 18, 2007 | 3 Comments »
WRITING PROCESS & PROGRESSI may not be writing on this blog but I have been writing elsewhere: morning pages, writing practice and short stories. I just finished the second on efrom my novel-in-stories and sent it out to my writing group for Sunday. It’s still not quite right. I’m not sure about the title which [...]
Word by Word
Posted in Uncategorized on May 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
WRITING PROCESS/PROGRESSSo I slogged my way through my story today, showing up although everything else clamored for my attention from the chocolate brownie fudge ice cream in the freezer to the blue skies and the 77º day outside. But I kept my butt in this chair and managed to make some headway. Some days it’s just [...]
Short Story Immersion
Posted in Uncategorized on May 9, 2007 | 2 Comments »
READINGI have been immersed in short stories lately. I just finished “The Dead Fish Museum” by Charles d’Ambrosio last night. The stories are rough around the edges, in a good way. I remember enjoying almost every story as I read them but honestly not one paricular story stands out against the rest. To be fair [...]
Editing My Dreams?
Posted in Uncategorized on May 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
RANDOM MUSINGSI must be a “real” writer if I’m editing my word choice in my dreams. Last night I dreamt that I interviewed Jack Nicholson. I notice how blue his eyes are and scribble that in my notes and try to come up with a word less cliché than piercing or penetrating. I mean Jack [...]
My 10 Favorite Short Stories
Posted in Uncategorized on May 4, 2007 | 2 Comments »
So I saw this out in the blogosphere and thought that it would be fun. Not sure if there are any parameters to follow but I decided to only list the short stories that I remember. No leafing through books to jog my memory. I can only check for titles and or spelling. So here [...]
Baby Steps
Posted in Uncategorized on May 1, 2007 | 2 Comments »
READINGI am about halfway through “Reading Like a Writer” by Francine Prose. She is really helping me to slow down and savor the sentences and word choices in my reading and my writing. And she is adding to my ever growing list of books to read, some by writers I’ve never heard of. Henry Green, [...]
