Comments for After the MFA

Comment on Surveying the Web Workers Among Us by Laura

Laura — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:16:19 +0000

Thanks for this great link to the survey!

Comment on The Power of the Anecdote by Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:42:23 +0000

The entire Ira Glass video series is priceless in the advice a writer can glean. Highly recommended. Story is story, in print, online, over the air. He gets that.

Comment on After the Workshop, Part 4: Networking Toward the Future by mp

mp — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:57:04 +0000

I stumbled on this quite by accident, and though haven’t read the whole series (I read part one and this one), I joined an online writers community four years ago, and three years ago created our website and space. I’ve come to not only befriend these people, but sought inspiration and criticism from them as well. We all have our lives outside of the community, but we work well from within. We’ve even held readings and events in the “real world”. So I’d advise to join something as active and fun. Good luck!

Comment on Writing, Rejection, and Depression by Galen

Galen — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:03:25 +0000

Galen…

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Comment on Edwidge Danticat on Detention by gordon

gordon — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:55:29 +0000

Pete — thanks for the alert. Sorry it took a few days to actually fix it.

- Gordon

Comment on Edwidge Danticat on Detention by pete

pete — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:56:56 +0000

can you please fix the link? i would like to see this….

Comment on Full of Artless Jealousy by Nicole

Nicole — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:04:18 +0000

In “How to Find the Work You Love” Laurence Boldt suggests: “When we have fallen into settling for less and are unwilling to admit it or do anything about it, the jealousy we feel towards others may be an unconscious way of trying to tell ourselves what we really want.”

He recommends focusing on the accomplishments of the person we envy “for accomplishments are the result of effort, and we are always in control of the effort we make.” If you’re jealous of what someone has written, don’t waste your energy feeling negative about it. Use it as fuel to keep yourself writing, editing, revising, and sending out your own work.

Comment on Full of Artless Jealousy by Kate

Kate — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:15:32 +0000

I agree with you 100% and wrote something related here:

http://beingandwriting.blogspot.com/2008/05/summers-debut-and-youth-fetish.html

Comment on Too Cool by (S)wine

(S)wine — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:29:09 +0000

fantastic.
i sort of wish Bill Evans was in this clip, though.
check out Miles smoking a stogey back there.
coltrane is heavenly.

Comment on Full of Artless Jealousy by Todd

Todd — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:24:27 +0000

Doubt and impatience are banes to me as well. Jealousy sort of gets wrapped in between those, if the green monster plays a part at all. I suspect doubt is the worst monster most writers have to struggle with.