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In Another Life

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Lindsey Crittenden

My next post will appear Friday, September 7. If you’re in the neighborhood, mark your calendar for Sept. 13, 7 p.m.: Why There Are Words, 333 Caledonia, Sausalito. I’d love to see some of you there! A few months ago, … Continue reading →

Posted in craft, reading, writing | Tagged anti-memoir, archeology, Cairo, fiction, getting it right, Helen of Troy, Homer, imagination, Lindsey Crittenden, Making It Up, memoir, narrative, narrative manipulation, novels, Odysseus, Odyssey, Penelope, Penelope Lively, story-making, The Photograph, Ulysses, Why There Are Words, writing fiction | 1 Comment

The Many Faces of Mollie

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Lindsey Crittenden

When I was in junior high, I wrote stories about a girl named Kim Swanson. I named her Kim because I wanted a name like “Kim”—popular, cute, perky. I wanted to fit in, to belong. “Lindsey” stuck out—I know, it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in craft, teaching, writing, writing groups | Tagged " artichoke fields, "Bees for Honey, character, Connecticut, ficiton, fictional characters, grad school, junior high, l, Lindsay Wagner, Lindsey Crittenden, New England, New Hampshire, novel, short fiction, short stories, The View from Below, thesis adviser, Vermont, Watsonville, World Book Encyclopedia | 4 Comments

All You Need Is Love

Posted on July 6, 2012 by Lindsey Crittenden

I’ve been thinking in terms of grand, declarative statements: Writing fiction is an act of love. Fiction depends upon empathy. Writing fiction is a moral act. Fiction is amoral. Fiction is true. Fiction depends on lies. Beauty is truth, and … Continue reading →

Posted in agents, craft, faith, teaching, writing | Tagged " Denis Johnson, " Edith Wharton, "Roman Fever, Araby, Aristotle, Barn Burning, Bullet in the Brain, Captain Ahab, empathy, Everything That Rises Must Converge, ficion writing, fiction, Fiction Intensive, Flannery O'Connor, Grace Paley, How Far She Went, Humbert Humbert, James Joyce, Laurie Ann Doyle, Lindsey Crittenden, Lolita, Madame Merle, Mary Hood, metanoia, Moby-Dick, Portrait of a Lady, The Little Girl, Tobias Wolff, UC Berkeley Extension, William Faulkner, Work, writing fiction | 4 Comments

Playtime

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Lindsey Crittenden

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 … 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 | 4 Comments

Done Yet?

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Lindsey Crittenden

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 … 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 | 6 Comments

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