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 [...]
March 16, 2007 – 10:48 am
The prime directive given to creative writers — “Show, don’t tell†— is a shorthand way of saying that good writing reveals through action and dialogue, and not through exposition. It is based on the idea that readers want to interpret a text with minimal amount of interference from the author. Instead of being told [...]
January 10, 2007 – 12:05 pm
[Here's the result of another writing prompt given out by my advisor -- oh I didn't tell you all who he is: His name's Kyle Bass, and I heard his stuff yesterday, and my god, is he a damn fine writer! I can't tell you how lucky I am to be working with the guy. [...]
January 9, 2007 – 12:32 pm
[On Sunday, my advisor at the residency for my M.F.A in Creative Writing program gave us a writing exercise to be turned it this morning. We had to write a story where three characters (one has to be a child, another an alien in the E.T. sense, and the last a person suffering from severe [...]
November 14, 2006 – 10:31 am
[I sent the following to Goddard College as part of my application to particpate in their Master of Fine Arts for Creative Writing program. The requirement here was to write a personal statement that explains why I want to receive the degree, how I hope to use the degree, why I think Goddard's unique program [...]
Last night, we returned from Free Wing Night at the pub, and before hitting the sack, I wanted to check my computer to see if my BitTorrent download had completed. While I waited for my screensaver to turn off (always a bitch when Azureus is running), a giant fucking moth landed on my monitor. I [...]
September 1, 2004 – 02:35 pm
The two of you blowing in
the wind brittle like your voice;
but she, the girl from north country,
is so tight, so smiling against you that
your world is the city, the central city, oxford town;
and you
just 22,
but she,
she welcomed you
you from just down the highway;
cold winds from the lakes
are nothing for the hot steam
that rises from between [...]
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