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Tag Archives: Lindsey Crittenden
Back In the Saddle
My husband has a friend who falls in love every week. Ed meets women at parties or around town, talks (or not) with them, and falls. Sometimes hard, sometimes not so hard – but either way, regardless of what transpires, … Continue reading
Posted in agents, writing
Tagged agents, friendship, Lindsey Crittenden, memoir, novel, rejection, resilience in romance, revision. Gilead, submitting manuscripts, The Water Will Hold You
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How do you keep writing when you don’t have time?
When I started this blog, last spring, while taking Meghan Ward’s Social Media Madness for Writers class at the Grotto – which I highly recommend to any Bay Area writer mystified by the demands and protocol of social media – … Continue reading
Posted in writing, writing groups
Tagged blogging, Lindsey Crittenden, Meghan Ward, novel, revision, Rincon, SF Writers' Grotto, social media, social media madness, the Grotto, writing, writing schedule
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Airing the Laundry
I will be taking off the next three weeks. My next post will appear Friday, October 21. I’ve never worried about offending anyone while writing. Maybe it’s all those years of uncensored diary entries about mad crushes and revenge fantasies … Continue reading
Try, Try Again
Whatever works for you, I tell my students. There’s no one way to write, no hard-and-fast rule that guarantees success, as much as we want one. And yet, certain koan-like statements have made it onto my bulletin board or refrigerator. … Continue reading
Posted in craft, teaching, Uncategorized, writing
Tagged Caribou Island, Colum McCann, David Vann, drafts, Fiction Writing Intensive, index cards, Jane Anne Staw, Legend of a Suicide, Lindsey Crittenden, Lydia Davis, Post-its, Proust, Samuel Beckett, Swann's Way, The Millions, UC Berkeley Extension, writers' colony, writing process
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