The Open Wound: Questions about Timing in Writing about Loss
In writing about loss, one vexation, among many others, involves timing: when is it the right time to begin writing about what I have experienced? Obviously, the experience of loss […]
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Let There Be Pheasants: On Writing Process as a Vacation
I’ve just begun a new writing project. The idea came from a poem I read a few years ago, and it grew as I wrote about it. It became exciting. […]
The Problem with the Structure Argument for the Five Paragraph Theme
I still have trouble believing that these arguments are still made. But since they are, here is one response. Defenders of the five paragraph theme mainly argue that it should […]
Are We Serious about Teaching Writing?
Recently, one of my creative writing students shared a great insight. She had been telling me that her peer group in the creative writing class was really good. They had […]
My Book Launch Talk—from book process to writer’s country
(What follows are the remarks I meant to give at my book launch in January, remarks I decided not to give when fellow author Sarah Adams simply read from her […]