Tag Archives: The Water Will Hold You

Out of the Faith Closet

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Lindsey Crittenden

When I started blogging, a little more than a year ago, I did so as an exploration of social media as a tool to reach my readers, to “build my brand” as a writer. I was curious about (and a … Continue reading →

Posted in faith, prayer, spirituality, writing, writing groups | Tagged A Skeptic Learns to Pray, blog posts, blog topics, blogging, blogs, building brand, Deborah Bryan, Facebook, faith, Lindsey Crittenden, Meghan Ward, Monster in Your Closet, prayer, praying, religion, religious topics, SF Writers' Grotto, skepticism, social media, spiritual autobiography, spiritual memoir, spiritual topics, spirituality, taboo topics, The Water Will Hold You, Twitter, virgin birth, writer's brand, writers' taboos | 11 Comments

Playtime

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Lindsey Crittenden

I read with interest Gina Gionfriddo’s article in last Sunday’s New York Times about her new play’s “inadvertent homage” to Wendy Wasserstein’s Heidi Chronicles. Gionfriddo’s play Rapture, Blister, Burn—which opened this week at Playwrights Horizons, the same theater where Heidi … Continue reading →

Posted in community, craft, reading, writing | Tagged Amy Herzog, Arts & Leisure, Berkeley Rep, betrayal, Blister, Burn, Christopher Isherwood, elementary school, friendship, Gina Gionfriddo, Heidi Chronicles, Heidi Holland, Jane Eyre, Lindsey Crittenden, melancholic temperment, narrative arc, New York Times, plays, playwrights, Playwrights Horizon, playwriting, Rapture, Stephen Karam, The Water Will Hold You, unpredictable climax, volleyball, Wendy Wasserstein | 4 Comments

Finding Time

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Lindsey Crittenden

My computer has iCal. I’ve carried around a pink-leather Filofax for ten years. The iCal shows more detail and goes farther into the future, but I can’t give up the physical object. Not only do I love the cheerful pink, … Continue reading →

Posted in teaching, writing | Tagged calendars, commute, computer schedules, Filofax, Lindsey Crittenden, routine, scheduling, self-employed work schedule, Siri, smart phones, structure, The Water Will Hold You, time managment, time-planning, working from home, writing schedule | 8 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

No Trees Felled, But a Terrific Evening

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Lindsey Crittenden

If you read this blog last week, you know that my story “The Art of Fiction” was read last Friday at Stories on Stage in Sacramento. What a wonderful evening–and I’m not saying that just because my story was featured. … Continue reading →

Posted in community, reading, writing | Tagged " 100-word stories, " Stories on Stnage, "Big Dog, acramento Poetry Center, Benjamin Ismail, Farallon Review, graduate creative writring program, Julia Halprin Jackson, Lindsey Crittenden, literary magazines, Pam Metzger, postcards, Sacramento, short shorts, The Art of FIction, The View from Below, The Water Will Hold You, Tim Foley, UC Davis, UC Davis program in creative wriring, Valerie Fioravanti | 4 Comments

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