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 [...]
March 10, 2008 – 04:05 pm
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 [...]
February 7, 2008 – 11:53 am
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) [...]
January 29, 2008 – 08:00 am
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 [...]
December 14, 2007 – 02:18 pm
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 [...]
October 16, 2007 – 08:00 am
A little over a month ago, I stumbled across an article entitled, “Advice on Novel Writing,” (it’s no longer available, but Google has it in its cache). One of the things it suggests is keeping a daily log of your writing progress: “The log can give you a sense of accomplishment, especially on big projects, [...]
April 24, 2007 – 03:37 pm
Your name here: “Even in the age of MySpace and blogging - where innermost thoughts can be made public without the help of an agent or publishing house - every year thousands of people in the UK start writing a novel. It is a journey few will finish, so why do they bother?”
April 24, 2007 – 11:53 am
Jason looks down and finds that it is indeed his wife beneath him, but that she is rotting. Her eyes are open but glazed over, staring up at him, without meaning, but bulging as though in terror of him. The flesh on her face is yellowish and drawn back toward her ears. Her mouth is [...]
April 20, 2007 – 12:01 pm
From Deadly prose: “Creative writing teachers have long wrestled with what they should do with students who turn in gruesome stories, as many colleges do not have formal policies about how teachers should respond. Further, there are no set rules for determining whether a story is the product of a febrile artistic imagination or a [...]
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