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 [...]
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. [...]
From Carl Zimmer’s The More We Know About Genes, the Less We Understand: “The source of their strength lies not in a single molecule — DNA — but in a complicated web of relationships. The network itself is the mystery for biologists in the 21st century.”
From Cory Doctorow’s Introduction to Little Brother: “I wrote Little Brother in a white-hot fury between May 7, 2007 and July 2, 2007: exactly eight weeks from the day I thought it up to the day I finished it (Alice, to whom this book is dedicated, had to put up with me clacking out the [...]
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 [...]
View the best links of January 2007 and February 2007.
If you only have time for one of these links, my recommendation is in italics.
March
From the NY Times’ Who Do You Think We Are?: “The General Social Survey has been performing [an] exploration of the American psyche for 34 years. The survey is a wonder of [...]
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Harper Perrennial Modern Classics) by Annie Dillard
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