Half the Battle: Part VIII (of 8)
[Note: The following series, Half The Battle, is culled from a long paper I had to write reflecting on my entire experience in Goddard College's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. It focuses on my creative thesis, a novel entitled, Gods of the Hills: An Act of Secession.]
I: Yo Joe!II: Walking Away Into [...]
Half the Battle: Part VII (of 8)
[Note: The following series, Half The Battle, is culled from a long paper I had to write reflecting on my entire experience in Goddard College's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. It focuses on my creative thesis, a novel entitled, Gods of the Hills: An Act of Secession.]
I: Yo Joe!II: Walking Away Into [...]
Half the Battle: Part VI (of 8)
[Note: The following series, Half The Battle, is culled from a long paper I had to write reflecting on my entire experience in Goddard College's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. It focuses on my creative thesis, a novel entitled, Gods of the Hills: An Act of Secession.]
I: Yo Joe!II: Walking Away Into [...]
Half the Battle: Part V (of 8)
[Note: The following series, Half The Battle, is culled from a long paper I had to write reflecting on my entire experience in Goddard College's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. It focuses on my creative thesis, a novel entitled, Gods of the Hills: An Act of Secession.]
I: Yo Joe!II: Walking Away Into [...]
Half the Battle: Part IV (of 8)
[Note: The following series, Half The Battle, is culled from a long paper I had to write reflecting on my entire experience in Goddard College's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. It focuses on my creative thesis, a novel entitled, Gods of the Hills: An Act of Secession.]
I: Yo Joe!II: Walking Away Into [...]
Half the Battle: Part III (of 8)
[Note: The following series, Half The Battle, is culled from a long paper I had to write reflecting on my entire experience in Goddard College's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. It focuses on my creative thesis, a novel entitled, Gods of the Hills: An Act of Secession.]
I: Yo Joe!II: Walking Away Into [...]
Half the Battle: Part I (of 8)
[Note: The following series, Half The Battle, is culled from a long paper I had to write reflecting on my entire experience in Goddard College's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. It focuses on my creative thesis, a novel entitled, Gods of the Hills: An Act of Secession. I had hoped to blog [...]
Your name here
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?”
Packing it all in
Vernon Hardapple: “Why did you keep writing this book if you didn’t even know what it was about?”
Grady Tripp: “I couldn’t stop.”
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I am confused.
I say to myself and to others that I am working on a novel, and this is a true statement, but to what extent? I have not typed up any drafts, nor [...]
The Adventure Begins
I’ve never written a novel, and I’m suspecting that neither have you, though there’s a decent chance that you’ve either tried or you think you might one day: according to the stats I wrote about a few months back, 81% of Americans think they have a book in them. For me, a self-declared writer, there’s [...]
