On Working with the Strange: Don’t Let Go
A professor of mine shared this formula with me the other day. When you’re working with something with propulsive energy, often something strange: You start with a form. Let’s say…
On Process: What is too slow?
Over the summer, let’s call it 18 weeks, I produced something like 50k words. This may be a slight over estimate, with another 22K earlier words in the same…
A Real Start Then
This site is coming with me, with most old posts deleted, in a new direction. The plan is to write here, because I couldn’t find what I need for myself. That is:…
Actually, I’m going to Columbia
Took me right up to the deadline to decide, and I ended up being waitlisted at a program that fully funds its 3 fiction students. So I sat on that…
Starting with Failure
I’ve likely failed to be admitted to an MFA program this year. It’s the 2nd and a 1/2 time I’ve applied (the 1/2 is a conceit I shouldn’t allow myself,…