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Tag Archives: revision
Now Sit Right Back
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
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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 … 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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Done Yet?
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
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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 … 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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