Category Archives: writing

A Post On Any Other Day…

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Lindsey Crittenden

*There will be no post next Friday, April 20. The next post will appear 4/27/12. (Coincidence. Really.) Today, for the first time since starting this blog almost a year ago, I’m posting on Saturday. Not just that, but Saturday afternoon. … Continue reading →

Posted in craft, writing | Tagged blogging, blogs, discipline, Grotto Annex, Lindsey Crittenden, Meghan Ward, S.F. Writers' Grotto, Sanchez Street, social media, TIburon, writing, writing habits, writing routine, writing schedule | Comments Off

Statement of Planned Work (one page only, please)

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Lindsey Crittenden

Some years ago, I applied to Ragdale, an artists’ and writers’ residency outside Chicago. I was accepted. In many ways, the timing was perfect. I had 300 pages of a novel to fix, I wasn’t sure yet how, but the … Continue reading →

Posted in community, craft, writing | Tagged Arts-and-Crafts, Bellingham Review, Chicago, dialogue that does more than one thing, ghosts, how-to-write advice, ill parents, Illinois Open Space, Kill your darlings, Lindsey Crittenden, memoir, naps, novel, novel-revising, novel-writing, point of view, prairie, Ragdale, residency, Sacramento, show don't tell, sonnets, Stories On Stage, The Art of FIction, The Water Will Hold You, unity of time and place, villanelles, writer's block, writerly advice, writers' residencies | 3 Comments

April Is National Poetry Month

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Lindsey Crittenden

My friend and writing colleague Ilana de Bare has posted a terrific piece on her blog, Midlife Bat Mitzvah, about Adrienne Rich, who died on Tuesday. Like, I suspect, a lot of women, I heard about Rich before I ever … Continue reading →

Posted in craft, prayer, reading, spirituality, writing | Tagged Adrienne RIch, brother's death, eulogies, grief, heaven, Ilana de Bare, jays, lament, Lindsey Crittenden, Midlife Bat Mtizvah, mourning, Pattiann Rogers, poetry, poets of desire, prayer, precision, prophecy, sympathy cards, The Next Story, The Water Will Hold You, W.H. Auden | 2 Comments

How Much Is Too Much, Part II

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Lindsey Crittenden

Last week, I blogged about the quandary of how to respond to student work. Here, a few writing teachers I admire share their approaches. Laurie Ann Doyle teaches creative writing at UC Berkeley Extension. Her story “Restraint” will be published … Continue reading →

Posted in craft, teaching, writing | Tagged anthologies, Boston University, characterization, Constance Hale, copyediting, criticsm, feedback, fiction workshop, fiction writing, Harvard University, Hawthorne Books, Holding Silvan, intimacy, Laurie Ann Doyle, Lindsey Crittenden, Madonna and Me, Midway Journal, Monica Wesolowska, motivation, narrative nonfiction, novels, online teaching, positive critique, positive feedback, praise, revision, Sin and Syntax, Stanford Continuing Ed, student-teacher relationship, syntax, teaching, teaching writing, Tomo, UC Berkeley Extension, University of San Francisco, Wendy Tokunaga, Will Baker, writing as process, writing classes | 4 Comments

How Much Is Too Much?

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Lindsey Crittenden

I’ve been teaching for more than ten years, and I like to think I’ve learned a thing or two along the way. But every so often, I’m brought back to a question I struggled with early in my teaching career: … Continue reading →

Posted in craft, teaching, writing | Tagged commenting on student writing, criticism, Deborah Bryan, feedback, Lindsey Crittenden, Monster in Your Closet, online teaching, teaching, teaching writing | 6 Comments

Category Archives: writing

Statement of Planned Work (one page only, please)

April Is National Poetry Month

How Much Is Too Much, Part II

How Much Is Too Much?

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