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 [...]
Just watched a documentary called “Stone Reader.??? I’m probably late in the game since it came out in 2002. There is no film more about “After the MFA??? than this. Morbidly, I watched and learned about a brilliant writer from the Iowa Workshop, who published a first novel in 1972 called “The Stones of Summer.??? [...]
“Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.” — Kurt Vonnegut
