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Monthly Archives: June 2012
Playtime
I read with interest Gina Gionfriddo’s article in last Sunday’s New York Times about her new play’s “inadvertent homage” to Wendy Wasserstein’s Heidi Chronicles. Gionfriddo’s play Rapture, Blister, Burn—which opened this week at Playwrights Horizons, the same theater where Heidi had its premiere in 1988—features a 40-something female academic with a successful writing career and second thoughts about her personal life. I saw Heidi Chronicles in New York when I was in my late twenties and, like many women, felt it could have been written just for me. Like Gina Gionfriddo, I too share Wasserstein’s “certain temperament…that makes you feel … Continue reading
Posted in community, craft, reading, writing
Tagged Amy Herzog, Arts & Leisure, Berkeley Rep, betrayal, Blister, Burn, Christopher Isherwood, elementary school, friendship, Gina Gionfriddo, Heidi Chronicles, Heidi Holland, Jane Eyre, Lindsey Crittenden, melancholic temperment, narrative arc, New York Times, plays, playwrights, Playwrights Horizon, playwriting, Rapture, Stephen Karam, The Water Will Hold You, unpredictable climax, volleyball, Wendy Wasserstein
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Finding Time
My computer has iCal. I’ve carried around a pink-leather Filofax for ten years. The iCal shows more detail and goes farther into the future, but I can’t give up the physical object. Not only do I love the cheerful pink, but certain appointments merit writing in both places or I’m likely to forget. As for Siri, pinging or ringing or whatever Siri does, to remind me—no, thanks. I don’t even have a smart phone. Some time ago—I suppose it says something that I can’t remember when or why—I stopped wearing a watch. I don’t miss it, and I’m (usually) still … Continue reading
Done Yet?
When people ask me what I’m working on these days, I tell them the truth: my novel. And then I get cagey. Questions inevitably follow, questions like, “How’s that going?” Or “the same one?” Or “Must be about done by now, huh?” The fact is, I’ve thought it done a few times now. First, about (gulp) ten years ago, when I wrote what seemed to me the most achingly beautiful ending I could imagine. (When you start to think of your own sentences as achingly beautiful, watch out.) My trusted readers didn’t get the imagery, and pointed out a few … Continue reading
Posted in agents, craft, writing, writing groups
Tagged agent, Gilead, Lindsey Crittenden, memoir, novel, novel-writing, rejection, revision, The Water Will Hold You, VIDA, women writers
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