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Category Archives: Writing craft

Getting Back to Business

OK, I almost went the way of every other blog or website done strictly for the love and none of the money. I almost let the damn thing atrophy.
Toward the end of 2007, daily life was completely taking over all sides of my brain and I wasn’t thinking much about After the MFA. Thankfully, Armand [...]

Posted 23 January 2008 † gordon § Just a thought § Links § Work § Writing § Writing process ‡ Comments (6)

Academic Writing Kills

Back in my MFA days (not so long ago, but starting to creep into the memories stage), one of my beloved instructors used to clown a fresh-from-undergraduate colleague about calling our stories “texts.”
“It’s a book,” he’d say. “You mean the story?” he’d ask.
It became a bit of a running joke in workshop, but the gist [...]

Posted 13 December 2007 † gordon § Links § Writing ‡ Comments (7)

What to Read to Write

A healthful and growing list of suggestions for reading about writing is going on in a post and subsequent comments on the blog Right Reading.
While I respectfully disagree with the recommendations for Anne Lamott’s “Bird by Bird” (to me, the chapter on dialogue felt like the only fruitful discussion on writing in the whole book), [...]

Posted 12 October 2007 † gordon § Books § Links § Writing § Writing process ‡ Comments (2)