My (hopefully) final Goddard residency begins on Friday. In anticipation of that event, I thought it might be a good time to finally write that post I’ve been meaning to write. Specifically, a short little guide to the websites I find indispensable to my creative writing process.
The main tools you already know about. I wrote [...]
I just realized that I use the phrase “goddamn it” as a replacement for the word “so,” when “so” is meant in its conjunctive aspect to introduce a statement that is followed by a defensive comment, a comment that I often–though not always–offer in the frame of a question.
As in the sentence, “You may be [...]
Let’s just put it right out in the open. Writing-wise, May was not nearly as good a month as I hoped or needed it to be. In the last installment of Adventures with Writing, I said my goals for May were 20,000 words, 55 hours, and a 13% word increase in my individual writing sessions. [...]
Every semester, Goddard asks its students to write a self-evaluation of their performance. For some reason, I’ve never posted them to Fluid Imagination, but I can’t for the life of me think why not. I mean, I try to be pretty open with everything, so why not publish this stuff too?
So, without further adieu, here [...]
I said at the end of my last Adventures in Writing column that I wanted to write at least 15,000 words in the month of April. I also said I’d give you an update come the beginning of May.
Well, it’s May 2nd…so time for the update. Let’s go to the numbers.
First, let’s take a look [...]
Things have been slow here in Poultney-town, but with the snow melting, the mud squishing, and the sun getting more face-time than an Asian paraplegic at a college open house, the bustling months of summer are right around the corner.
Most of my days and nights are still spent in this godforsaken home-office, and while I [...]
I haven’t given you an update on my thesis since January 11th, almost two months ago exactly. In that time, I’ve completed chapters five and six and brought my total word count to 65,907 words, which equals about 229 printed pages and 206 paperback ones (averaging 300 words per page, and leaving space for chapter [...]
As I mentioned last week, I am teaching a class in short-story writing this semester entitled Once & Again: A Workshop in Creative Revision. This week’s class was relatively uneventful, from an outside perspective. If you had shown up in the middle of it, you would have seen five students (and one dashingly handsome teacher) [...]
Last night, I began teaching my first college-level class as part of my graduate program’s degree requirements. I’m running a small workshop in short-story writing entitled, “Once & Again: A Workshop in Creative Revision.” I’ve got five undergraduate students and one post-grad student who will be participating in the class over the Internet. They’ll each [...]
Sorry about the silence last week, but I was at Goddard, starting the penultimate semester of my Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. It’s crazy to think that at this time next year, if everything goes right, I’ll have a Master’s degree. I mean: I was the kid in high school who said, [...]
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