I finished my second novel (as an adult) on the day my best friend from high school gave birth to her second child. My friend called me from the hospital to tell me the great news and then, because she was a sweet woman and because she was from the upper Midwest, she reflexively asked […]
Continue ReadingLast week, I mentioned the blog post I had started, but decided not to publish in the midst of a busy workshop. Here it is: At every craft workshop I teach, I make at least one writer cry. This week, I’m teaching a short story workshop for professional writers. These are workshop-hardened folk, people who […]
Continue ReadingI taught a short story class for professional writers in June, writers who’ve either been published or had some degree of success in their writing careers. I worked those folks hard, and in turn, they worked me hard. Many of them mailed their stories to possible markets (Note to editors: buy these stories), but several […]
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