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Tag Archives: Stories On Stage
If I Gave a Reading in the Forest, and No Tree Fell, Would Anyone Buy a Copy of My Book?*
While in grad school, some seventeen years ago, I taught my first class and gave my first public reading. Both were nerve-wracking—I practiced for days, reading aloud from pages marked up with little arrows and accent marks. You know, slow … Continue reading →
Posted in community, faith, spirituality, teaching, Uncategorized, writing
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Tagged a writer's writer, Alan Jones, Benjamin Ismail, community, Dean Alan Jones, Facebook, Facebook page, Grace Cathedral, grad school, Julia Halprin Jackson, Lindsey Crittenden, low attendance, Pam Metzger, public readings, Sacramento, stories, Stories On Stage, storytelling, The Art of FIction, The Water Will Hold You, theology of abundance, theology of scarcity
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Statement of Planned Work (one page only, please)
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
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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
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