Tag Archives: The Water Will Hold You

If I Gave a Reading in the Forest, and No Tree Fell, Would Anyone Buy a Copy of My Book?*

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Lindsey Crittenden

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 | 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 | 2 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

April Is National Poetry Month

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Lindsey Crittenden

My friend and writing colleague Ilana de Bare has posted a terrific piece on her blog, Midlife Bat Mitzvah, about Adrienne Rich, who died on Tuesday. Like, I suspect, a lot of women, I heard about Rich before I ever … Continue reading →

Posted in craft, prayer, reading, spirituality, writing | Tagged Adrienne RIch, brother's death, eulogies, grief, heaven, Ilana de Bare, jays, lament, Lindsey Crittenden, Midlife Bat Mtizvah, mourning, Pattiann Rogers, poetry, poets of desire, prayer, precision, prophecy, sympathy cards, The Next Story, The Water Will Hold You, W.H. Auden | 2 Comments

Retreat

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Lindsey Crittenden

I just got home from the convent. A writer’s retreat, actually: three nights in a small room (bed, desk, chair, sink, icon) at a spiritual center run by Dominican Sisters, a thirty-minute drive north. Outside the door to my room, … Continue reading →

Posted in community, spirituality, writing | Tagged convent, Dominican Sisters, Lindsey Crittenden, places to write, productivity, residencies, The Shining, The Water Will Hold You, writer's retreat, writing retreats | 5 Comments

Back In the Saddle

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Lindsey Crittenden

My husband has a friend who falls in love every week. Ed meets women at parties or around town, talks (or not) with them, and falls. Sometimes hard, sometimes not so hard – but either way, regardless of what transpires, … Continue reading →

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If I Gave a Reading in the Forest, and No Tree Fell, Would Anyone Buy a Copy of My Book?*

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