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Want to Be an MFA Blogger?

If you’re currently enrolled in an MFA program and want to write about your experience for a wide audience, this may be your chance. Not for this site — well, maybe (send me an email or something) — but rather for Writer’s Digest’s blog MFA Confidential. They’re holding a contest and it seemed interesting enough [...]

Posted 09 March 2010 † Gordon § Blogging § Writing ‡ Comments (5)

You Can’t Write Until You Grow the F Up

What I learned was that to write a book you have to first become the person you need to be to write that book. I had to, like, literally change. I had to become a new person. I had to grow the f— up. – Junot Diaz

Posted 02 October 2008 † Gordon § Authors § Just a thought § Quotes ‡ Comments (0)

Writing and running with Murakami

Back in June I read Haruki Murakami’s essay in a recent issue of the New Yorker and was instantly captivated. Not only was Murakami’s story of how he entered the writing life (got a little sidetracked in his career running a Japanese jazz bar), but he described his entry into the world of running in [...]

Posted 27 August 2008 † Gordon § Authors § Books § Reading § Writing § Writing process ‡ Comments (0)