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Category Archives: Complaint
Member Dispatch: Post Lit-Fest Letdown–How to Keep the Words Coming?
Young poet Brynn Downing’s sending out an SOS. Anyone have ideas for her? As a child, I devoured books about pioneers and mythology–especially stories of hardship, and want. I’d take … Continue reading
And another thing about fitting an elephant into a handbag…
Okay, I admit I’m not particularly good at being succinct, in general. Anyone who’s ever been in a writer’s group with me knows to save a weekend for “Andrea’s 35-page-disaster-of-a-draft.” So … Continue reading
Hey, What’s That Worth To You? (Warning: Rambling and Ranting Ahead)
I’ve been thinking lately about what stuff is worth. Apparently, J.D. Salinger wrote a note to his housekeeper in March of 1989 asking her to be sure to finish up … Continue reading
Can’t we be friends? A memoir vs. novel smackdown
Every August at Lighthouse we hold a 4-week course, Is it a Novel… or a Memoir?. Novelist William Haywood Henderson spends half of the time and all his masculine wiles persuading writers to … Continue reading
It’s Elementary, My Dear Watson! Except When it Really, Really Is Not
I’ve been thinking that what I don’t know would fill a big old book and a bunch of sequels besides. Look out J.K. Rowling. The thing that got me thinking … Continue reading
An Open Letter to 2011
Dear New Year, Welcome! We’ve been expecting you. It looks like you’re settling in nicely and behaving yourself for the most part. Good for you. The first week is often … Continue reading
On WikiLeaks and Lighthouse
I spent the long Thanksgiving weekend cocooned in the mountains and returned to news of the WikiLeaks brouhaha and to two stacks of essays. These piles, filled with feedback from … Continue reading
Bad Advice for a Better Writing Life
Andrea’s post from Monday got me thinking (as Andrea’s posts will do) about bad advice. I get bad advice all the time and I probably give my fair share of … Continue reading
But does your narrator, like, have a point of view?
A few weeks ago, I trotted out a quote about first-person narrative for the Thursday night short story writers to contemplate. It was red meat, so to speak, and I wanted … Continue reading
