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The holiday cookies are baked and the wreath’s hanging on the door. Sort of. I’ve baked holiday cookies once, maybe twice in my life. It’s not that I don’t like holiday cookies. I love holiday cookies—at least most of them. Gingerbread men are cute, with icing outlining their chubby little feet and hands, even if you crack your teeth on those little silver balls. I adore butter cookies, especially shaped into wreaths. Even typing the words “Pecan Sandies” makes me drool. But if you stop by our house this month, you’re not likely to be offered a plate of home-baked … Continue reading
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Tagged Audrey Ferber, Benjamin Moore, Drop Dead Gorgeous, family photos, holiday cookies, holiday visitors, Ilsa Brink, interior painting, Lindsey Crittenden, Orange-Pecan Ice Box Cookies, Pecan Sandies, Poets & Writers, revising, The Water Will Hold You, Vibrant Blush, website design, Writer's Chronicle, writers' group, 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 recent reading from my memoir Holding Silvan, a friendly young man in the audience asked how I’d managed not to be angry or bitter in the book about the people who’d failed me while Silvan was alive. I had to laugh. I could have said the memoir just came out like that because I’m naturally a lovely person, but catching … Continue reading
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Tagged brain damage, compassion, grief, Holding Silvan, Lindsey Crittenden, loss, love, memoir, Monica Wesolowska, revision, writers' group, writing group
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Coming Out of Traction
First, a few announcements this first Friday in June: Summer writing classes at the Grotto are now open for enrollment. I’m excited about teaching a weekend workshop in August, on using existing models to craft short fiction. Check out all upcoming classes here. I’ve started planning on another new class, Developing the Memoir, at UC Berkeley Extension this fall. Watch for details. We’ve extended the deadline for the Summer Fiction Intensive at UC Berkeley Extension! Get that writing sample out this weekend to make the 6/10 cut-off! (Yes, the online catalog says 6/3, but it’s really 6/10 .) What a … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Saliou, blogging, Developing the Memoir, Elena Ferrante, Fiction Intensive, Fiction Writing Intensive, Grotto, Grotto classes, head traction, Hemingway, Iyengar yoga, Lindsey Crittenden, My Brilliant Friend, The Lost Daughter, The Water Will Hold You, traction, UC Berkeley Extension, writers' group, writing blogs, writing classes, yoga, Yoga Loft
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It’s been a good couple weeks on the fiction front. First, though, a confession: I haven’t written in months – written written, that is. My work has taken a backseat to wedding planning, helping organize two major moves (fiancé in; nephew out), teaching. Posting to this blog, as well as to “Good Letters,” helps me from feeling like a writer fake. But still. Turning out 700 relatively coherent words in an hour or two isn’t the same as immersing myself in a world of my own creation. In Rincon. That’s the name of the fictionalized town in my novel. It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged blog, Cody Gates, fiction, Fiction Intensive, fiction workshop, fiction writing, Good Letters, Jane Anne Staw, Laurie Ann Doyle, Lindsey Critenden, revision, Rincon, Ryan Sloan, UC Berkeley Extension, writers' group, writing fiction
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