Tag Archives: novel-writing

Now Sit Right Back

Posted on April 24, 2015 by Lindsey Crittenden

Something’s up. Twice in the past week, I’ve done something I rarely do. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I did it, before last Thursday. I watched a TV show. Last Thursday found me scrolling through Comcast on … Continue reading →

Posted in writing | Tagged Alias Smith and Jones, All in the Family, Brady Bunch, Breaking Bad, cable TV, Downton Abbey, Fractured Fairy Tales, Game of Thrones, Gilligan's Island, Girls, Gomer Pyle, Hogan's Heroes, Homeland, House of Cards, Kate & Allie, Land of the Lost, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Lindsey Crittenden, Love American Style, M*A*S*H*, Mad Men, Murphy Brown, novel-writing, Partridge Family, revision, Roald Dahl, Room 222, Run Joe Run, television, The Americans, The Odd Couple, Three's Company, TV, Wolf Hall, writing | Comments Off

Crossing the Bridge

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Lindsey Crittenden

Bridge-crossing is a metaphor, of course, and a clichéd one at that. It’s also an action grounded in regular habit for anyone who lives near water: to get to work, to school, to home, we cross a bridge. Growing up, … Continue reading →

Posted in craft, writing | Tagged fast lane, fiction writing, Golden Gate Bridge, imagination, International Orange, Lindsey Crittenden, novel revision, novel-writing, The Water Will Hold You, traffic dividers, writing process | 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

Done Yet?

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Lindsey Crittenden

When people ask me what I’m working on these days, I tell them the truth: my novel. And then I get cagey. Questions inevitably follow, questions like, “How’s that going?” Or “the same one?” Or “Must be about done by … Continue reading →

Posted in agents, craft, writing, writing groups | Tagged agent, Gilead, Lindsey Crittenden, memoir, novel, novel-writing, rejection, revision, The Water Will Hold You, VIDA, women writers | 6 Comments

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

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Now Sit Right Back

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