Tag Archives: revision

Sharing Our Work

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Lindsey Crittenden

The first time I showed someone a story I’d written, I thrust the pages at her and fled her office. This was in 1992, another lifetime, when I’d come to realize that if I wanted to write someday, I’d better … Continue reading →

Posted in community, craft, teaching, writing, writing groups | Tagged " Publishers Weekly, "Bees for Honey, character development, craft, criticism, feedback, intuition, Lindsey Crittenden, publication, readers responses, reviews, revision, sharing work, starred reviews, The View from Below: Stories, writers workshop, writers' groups, writing conferences | 2 Comments

Don’t ask, don’t tell

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Lindsey Crittenden

Note: there will be no post next Friday, 12/30. Check back 1/6/12. Happy New Year! The question comes up at parties, over dinner with new friends, next to a chatty traveler on an airplane. The inevitable ice-breaker— What do you … Continue reading →

Posted in craft, writing | Tagged 1969 moon landing, anguished question, Away from Trees, childhood, courthouse, creative process, drafting process, fiction, fiction themes, fiction workshop, fiction writing, ghost town, intuition, kidnapping, loss, planting symbols, revision, Wallace Stegner | 4 Comments

One Fewer Thing

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Lindsey Crittenden

There will be no post Friday, November 25. Happy Thanksgiving! Those three words have been my mantra this week, something my husband has reminded me of as he leaves in the morning and as we talk midafternoon. I work from … Continue reading →

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How do you keep writing when you don’t have time?

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Lindsey Crittenden

When I started this blog, last spring, while taking Meghan Ward’s Social Media Madness for Writers class at the Grotto – which I highly recommend to any Bay Area writer mystified by the demands and protocol of social media – … Continue reading →

Posted in writing, writing groups | Tagged blogging, Lindsey Crittenden, Meghan Ward, novel, revision, Rincon, SF Writers' Grotto, social media, social media madness, the Grotto, writing, writing schedule | 8 Comments

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Lindsey Crittenden

It’s been a good couple weeks on the fiction front. First, though, a confession: I haven’t written in months – written written, that is. My work has taken a backseat to wedding planning, helping organize two major moves (fiancé in; … Continue reading →

Posted in community, craft, reading, teaching, writing, writing groups | Tagged blog, Cody Gates, fiction, Fiction Intensive, fiction workshop, fiction writing, Good Letters, Jane Anne Staw, Laurie Ann Doyle, Lindsey Critenden, revision, Rincon, Ryan Sloan, UC Berkeley Extension, writers' group, writing fiction | Comments Off

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