Writers Porter Shreve and Bich Minh Nguyen (husband and wife) have each found success individually: Shreve is the author of…
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Naming, Part II
Eleanor Davis, aspiring actress, slightly modified her first name the moment she set foot on campus at Brown: “Eleonora,” she…
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What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers by Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter, a common text for creative writing workshops,…
Continue reading →The Anxiety of (Assigning) Influence
I’m rereading John Hart’s books now for an essay I’m writing for the North Carolina Literary Review, and I’ve also been…
Continue reading →Exercising Twice in the Same Week?
After borrowing a couple of exercises from Natalie Goldberg’s latest for my last post, I trotted out another great writing…
Continue reading →Jump-starting the Writing Day (or Night)
“A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people,” said Thomas Mann, and…
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