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Cathy Day:
This brought tears to my eyes.
Originally posted on Experiences with Language:
I’ve been waiting for the right time to make this post, because it means a lot to me. I chose tonight because today I visited my college for the first time since graduating. I caught a glimpse of who I was, right as I was leaving the college. I saw myself full of emotion and excitement for the world.
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I always try to err on the side of kindness. It’s important to remember to tell people we love them and appreciate them. Reading this article today reminded me why. A snippet:
"This is a lesson that we all have to learn over and over, but I’ll tell it to you anyway, in case you’re in...
When I teach my editing class, I always like to begin early with an exercise. The entire class becomes a publishing company, and we walk a manuscript through the process. Since I teach my students …
My friend Linda Taylor, a former editor, often begins her classes with an in-class exercise that walks students through the publishing process. I highly recommend you steal this idea which she has so helpfully described in detail here.
All you need are some of these.
The faux manuscript in her post is nonfiction, and the publisher is traditional, but the basic principles would apply with fiction and poetry, small presses, university presses, etc. Although perhaps less bottom-line driven.
I’ve been moderating and paneling for a long time and been doing a lot of panels these past few months and have a few thoughts about what makes a great panel. I thought I would follow up Mette’s excellent A Good Moderator post from a month ago with a How to Panel like a Lit Champ! post....
Required reading before AWP!
What I’m doing lately is writing on my iphone and emailing little bits of a new story to myself. Which is weird because I’ve never done that before. I’ve re-written the first sentence five times. I’ve got all these short emails with no subject line, just the same first sentence in the body, with...
You loved the book. Don't keep it inside. Tell the writer. Here's how. It really does make a difference.
Do you know about Thug Notes?
You need to know about Thug Notes.
Watch one episode in its entirety before making up your mind about how you feel about it.
Throw away the scale. There is no scale, there is only your story. Listen to the story you are trying to tell, that unconscious combination of imagination and memory and feeling, and trust it. Concentrate on expressing that as clearly as you can, concentrate on finding the language for it, but above all don’t second-guess it. It’s your true north. Because here’s the great thing about novels and writing and creating anything: nobody else can possibly write the book you’re writing. It is yours, singular, and the more clearly it is expressed the more alive its singularity will be. If you want to be ruthless, be ruthless about clarity, be ruthless about trusting yourself, be ruthless about finding generosity for your characters, but most of all be ruthless about ignoring the inner demon that keeps telling you you’ll never be as good as Eudora Welty or Zadie Smith or David Mitchell or James Baldwin or whoever, that your novel will never be better than an 8. That inner demon is full of fear, and fear, if anything, is what reduces a novel and sterilizes its language. Fear, in writing, is a self-fulfilling prophesy. So banish it, banish the whole scale, and trust your own dark bouquet of inspiration. Thank god you’re not those other writers. We already have their books, but we don’t have yours…
Ted Thompson, answering your Ask a Debut Novelist Qs at Little, Brown.
Way more Sugary advice where that came from…
(via rachelfershleiser)
Every week in my Literary Citizenship class, I’m giving my students a new weekly “experiment” or intention. This week it’s “Outward Only.” Social media doesnât have a reputation as a force for good…
Can you do it? Not talk about yourself for a week? Only talk about books, writers, “outward only?”
Give it a try.
Don't talk about yourself on social media for a week. Only talk about books and writers. Talk up others. Not yourself. Do it for a week. It works.
I know what you want to hear. I can see the teleprompter in your eyes, telling me how to fulfill your fantasies of what it means to be a writer: I write because I am compelled to. I write because I can’t do anything else. I write because it’s the only way I know to express myself… These are the things writers are expected to say.
I think a lot of people can relate to this.
I couldn’t make it to the chapbook release party last night, but I just picked this beauty up - trying to be a good #litcitizen
Mr. Fox, Helen Oyeyemi. “You would read a book like that,” said Kevin when I told him the plot of this one (which is, a male author’s female character comes to life and exacts revenge on him! [sort of]). “Has anyone else ever even read that book?”
A Series of Unfortunate Events #7
It can take a long time to write a novel. Ten years. Or more.
Are you thinking about applying for MFA programs in creative writing in the fall? Then read this post about how to ask for a letter of recommendation.
And write write write all summer.
What is your purpose? Where's your deep gladness? What does the world need?
How many times have you asked yourself the question, "Am I writer?" Here's the answer.
February Book Photo Challenge: Day 1
Reading This Month These are the books I would like to read. Now, how many I can realistically read with school and all that jazz is a whole different question
How many books can you read during the month of May?
