I've just finished making a pan of lasagne for my son's birthday dinner tomorrow. (Brief aside: on Twitter, the spell check wanted me to spell it lasagne, which I thought was correct. Here on Typepad, the spelling gods insist it is lasagna. But I sticking to my e ending. I like e endings.) I'm sort […]
Yesterday, I wrote about the fabulous workshop that Darnell Arnoult gave for the Loft and talked about how she presented an exercise called "Finding Fiction in a Photo," wherein we looked at pictures (amazingly enough) for a full five minutes and then wrote about them. I can't express how important this kind of deep connection […]
I promised a run-down of the recent orientation weekend my partner Terry Price and I put together for the Writer's Loft, at MTSU in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Terry and I took over the program last March, (geez, it seems much longer ago than that) and so this was the first orientation on our watch. We were […]
I cannot tell a lie, because you have no doubt noticed, but I am a blogging slacker. Two weeks ago I headed to Nashville for the Writer's Loft fall orientation. This was a big to-do because it was the first actual orientation that my partner Terry and I planned since we took over the program. […]
By the time you read this, I'll be in Nashville. And even though I have learned how to send a post to this site from my Centro, just in case the giant Centro God in the sky deems that feature unavailable this week, I've collected a few of my favorite Wordstrumpet links for your reading […]
What's the difference between a novel and a story? A story is shorter. Funny joke. I know, I know, don't quit my day job as a writer to to become a comedian, right? The truth of the matter is, a short story is a lot shorter than a novel, and that makes all the difference. […]
Yesterday I cleverly wrote a post on my new Centro phone and sent it to be published on Typepad from my backyard. I know this is old news for those of you who have had Blackberries and Iphones for ever, but it is a major step forward for me. I'm on the road to LA […]
This is a test. No, not of the emergency broadcast system, but my phone, to see if I can post directly from it. Since I’m hitting the road on Tuesday, I thought it would be cool to figure out. The last test failed, here goes this one. Update: It worked! I sent the previous paragraph […]
I'm reading a novel published by a smaller press. Sometimes the reason why novels don't get picked up by a big publishing house (or picked up at all) is a mystery. But in this particular case I have some thoughts. Its really a very good novel in many ways–compelling subject, lots of conflict, interesting situation. […]
You may have noticed the appearance of the above button on my sidebar. In case you are wondering what it is, I will tell you. A beautiful young woman and her husband were in a terrible plane crash earlier this month. The crash left a third passenger on the plane dead, and Stephanie Nielson and […]
