-
Danger! Danger!
Recently, Lori Deboer, my fiction coach, suggested I go to a writer’s conference, and I dreamed of attending one. No, really, I dreamed I went to an expensive gathering fraught with critique and agents who hate writers. On the final day of that conference, I was lost in the staircase of a dormitory, asking everyone…
-
“Attention must be paid.”
This often quoted line from Death of a Salesman breaks the passive tense rule and leaves us to question who pays a bill of attention. In context, of course, it’s Willie Loman’s sons. But for those of a writerly persuasion attention comes from friends, families, readers, editors (if we are good and lucky) and strangers.…
-
Practicing Persistence
Today we have a visitor. Please welcome Waverly Penmanship, writer and all around human being. Waverly has agreed to share with us a typical day in the life of a full-time writer. She’s a bit shy so I’ll just transcribe what she has told me. Here’s what she did yesterday: Morning pages, three, no matter…
