Thinking today about the old chicken-or-the-egg question: do we choose the stories we tell, or do the stories pick us
Continue readingDo you think you have to be unhappy (or lonely) to produce?
This question, and others listed below, emerged from a discussion run by K C Culver, who leads the Literature Group
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I enjoy Caroline Leavitt’s blog at carolineleavittville.com Today she posted an interview with writer Dawn Raffel, who offers these thoughts
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Emerging Writers Network just posted a guest blog/essay of mine on “the experience of being edited.” This site is a
Continue readingFound Poem
It seems my German friend Winfried (who give me all my best lines: see Author’s Statement regarding the writing of
Continue readingA Controlled Pause: Thoughts on Dani Shapiro’s “Devotion”
First, a happy update: book club members in Washington, Wisconsin, Indiana, Hawaii, Florida, New York and Maine have requested a
Continue readingA Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words (or Several Hundred, Anyway)
The inclusion of images in Good Things evolved out of a happy accident. I commute long hours by train to
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A roundup of the latest reviews. Fiction Writers Review The honest passion to Ansay’s writing is one that I haven’t
Continue readingMy Daughter Speaks Her Mind
A round-up Mother’s Day article/interview that mentions Good Things I Wish You, plus my daughter’s ideas about having a writer
Continue readingSome Interviews
Some interviews from various sites. PIF Magazine B&N BEATRICE
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