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If At First…

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Lindsey Crittenden

I’d like to share some good news. Yesterday, I heard from an editor at a literary magazine that the revision of a story I’d sent them made the cut. “We loved it!” she wrote. Contract in the mail. Wow! Yay! … Continue reading →

Posted in agents, community, writing, writing groups | Tagged Lindsey Crittenden, literary fiction, literary magazines, publication, reactions to rejection, revision, saving earlier work, short fiction, short stories, submiting work for pubication, writers' group | 4 Comments

It’s Only A Dream

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Lindsey Crittenden

When I was in third grade, my class took a field trip to Kirby Cove, a small rocky beach just west of the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge. To get there, we had to walk—or in my case, … Continue reading →

Posted in faith, prayer, spirituality, teaching, writing, writing groups | Tagged Danskin, dreaming, dreams, elementary school, Kirby Cove, Lindsey Crittenden, novel-writing, The Water Will Hold You, third grade, writing fiction | 2 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

Out of the Faith Closet

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Lindsey Crittenden

When I started blogging, a little more than a year ago, I did so as an exploration of social media as a tool to reach my readers, to “build my brand” as a writer. I was curious about (and a … Continue reading →

Posted in faith, prayer, spirituality, writing, writing groups | Tagged A Skeptic Learns to Pray, blog posts, blog topics, blogging, blogs, building brand, Deborah Bryan, Facebook, faith, Lindsey Crittenden, Meghan Ward, Monster in Your Closet, prayer, praying, religion, religious topics, SF Writers' Grotto, skepticism, social media, spiritual autobiography, spiritual memoir, spiritual topics, spirituality, taboo topics, The Water Will Hold You, Twitter, virgin birth, writer's brand, writers' taboos | 11 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

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