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Category Archives: writing groups
Welcome Back
The holiday cookies are baked and the wreath’s hanging on the door. Sort of. I’ve baked holiday cookies once, maybe twice in my life. It’s not that I don’t like holiday cookies. I love holiday cookies—at least most of them. … Continue reading
Posted in community, writing, writing groups
Tagged Audrey Ferber, Benjamin Moore, Drop Dead Gorgeous, family photos, holiday cookies, holiday visitors, Ilsa Brink, interior painting, Lindsey Crittenden, Orange-Pecan Ice Box Cookies, Pecan Sandies, Poets & Writers, revising, The Water Will Hold You, Vibrant Blush, website design, Writer's Chronicle, writers' group, writing
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How Revision Brings Us Closer
This first Friday in July, I’m thrilled to offer a guest post by my friend and colleague Monica Wesolowska. Her memoir, Holding Silvan, will blow you away. And she’s got some nifty insights here, too. Thank you, Monica! At a … Continue reading
Posted in community, craft, writing, writing groups
Tagged brain damage, compassion, grief, Holding Silvan, Lindsey Crittenden, loss, love, memoir, Monica Wesolowska, revision, writers' group, writing group
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Coming Out of Traction
First, a few announcements this first Friday in June: Summer writing classes at the Grotto are now open for enrollment. I’m excited about teaching a weekend workshop in August, on using existing models to craft short fiction. Check out all … Continue reading
Posted in craft, writing, writing groups
Tagged Anne Saliou, blogging, Developing the Memoir, Elena Ferrante, Fiction Intensive, Fiction Writing Intensive, Grotto, Grotto classes, head traction, Hemingway, Iyengar yoga, Lindsey Crittenden, My Brilliant Friend, The Lost Daughter, The Water Will Hold You, traction, UC Berkeley Extension, writers' group, writing blogs, writing classes, yoga, Yoga Loft
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The Next Big Thing: Her Current Project
Today I’m happy to host my friend and colleague Monica Wesolowska on this blog. Her answers show her gift for startling imagery, emotional acuity, and just darned good writing. Her book, Holding Silvan (publication March 2013), is gorgeous. Also, today, … Continue reading
Posted in agents, community, craft, writing, writing groups
Tagged agent persistence, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, Arroyo Literary Review, book titles, death, death of a child, Elizabeth McCracken, Genevieve Jurgensen, grief, Hawthorne Books, Holding Silvan, Isabel Allende, letting a child die, loss of children, medical complications during childbirth, medical ethics, memoir, Monica Wesolowska, naming children, Paula, Peggy Orenstein, Pisgah Review, Romeo and Juliet, story submissions, talking about death, The Disappearance, Watiting for Daisy
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