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Tag Archives: Monica Wesolowska
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 recent reading from my memoir Holding Silvan, a friendly young man in the audience asked how I’d managed not to be angry or bitter in the book about the people who’d failed me while Silvan was alive. I had to laugh. I could have said the memoir just came out like that because I’m naturally a lovely person, but catching … 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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Only Connect
I’m in a scattershot mood this morning, so today’s post will be rather scattershot. First, I’d like to give a shout-out to three colleagues with recently published books: Lana Dalberg, BIRTHING GOD Judith Newton, TASTING HOME Monica Wesolowska, HOLDING SILVAN I’ve mentioned all three on Facebook, and Monica guest-blogged here a few months ago, but I must mention them again here. If I can bring even one new reader to any of these books, which deserve many, I’ll be thrilled. ** About a month ago, my cell phone died. I had an old model, a decidedly-not-smart least-expensive model on the … Continue reading
Posted in community, craft, faith, reading, teaching, writing
Tagged Birthing God, cell phone, cell phones, checking email, depression, email, Holding Silvan, iPhone 4, iPhone 5, Judith Newton, Lana Dalberg, Lindsey Crittenden, Monica Wesolowska, smart phones, Stinson Beach, Tasting Home, teacher/student connection, The Water Will Hold You
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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, I have some good news to share. I have two short stories—“The Ruins” and “Moles”—that will be out in 2013 between the covers of Arroyo Literary Review and Pisgah Review. (No firm dates yet.) After a dry spell of not writing (or publishing) much (or any) fiction, I’m thrilled to see these two stories find a home in print. And, … 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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The Next Big Thing: My New Project
Thanks to Meghan Ward for inviting me to participate in this blog chain. Meghan is the prize-winning author of a memoir titled Paris On Less Than $10,000 a Day. She blogs at Writerland.com and teaches social media classes at SF Writers’ Grotto. “New” might be pushing it in describing this book, a novel I’m revising, but it’s certainly first and foremost in my writing mind these days. What is the working title of your book? Rincon People Where did the idea come from for this book? I had a dream, an embarrassing number of years ago, of a young boy … Continue reading
How Much Is Too Much, Part II
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 in Midway Journal this summer. Constance Hale, author of Sin and Syntax and the forthcoming Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch, has taught narrative nonfiction writing at UC Berkeley Extension, Boston University, and Harvard University. Wendy Tokunaga teaches fiction at University of San Francisco and Stanford Continuing Ed. The author of three published novels, she has work in two new anthologies, Madonna … 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
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