Writing long
Issue 13: 20k words in 3 days Dear reader, I did it. I wrote a total of 23,941 words in three days. It’s the most I’ve ever written in that amount of time. It was cool to prove to myself that I’m capable of more than
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A collection of 5 issues
Resisting metaphor
Issue 11: Lessons from McCormack Writing Workshop In February, I finished McCormack Writing Center’s Winter Workshop (formerly Tin House Workshop). It was such a nourishing and rewarding experience to luxuriate in the fullness of a literary space, a good and timely reminder of how invaluable that energy is, and
The Art of Time in Fiction, and in Life
Issue 7: Then, now, later “All art is a negotiation with time,” begins Gina Chung in her One Story craft lecture, Tempo & Rhythm: Manipulating Time in Fiction. “Maybe this is because we have trouble with the passage of time in real life,” she jokes. This is over Zoom, so
“What would it take for you to do this for real?”
Issue 4: The habit of art I’ve been thinking a lot about this question my friend, Kat, asked me a few months ago. We were at a group dinner celebrating her birthday and our friend Vicki’s book launch (you can buy a copy here!) This group of four
Practicing Living
Issue 3: Lessons from my Beginner Acting class “What is acting?” My teacher, Scott Organ, posed this question on our first day of class. Most simply, it is saying and doing something in a place. But more than that, acting is living truthfully under artificial circumstances. All of us know