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Friday Finds for Writers

by Erika Dreifus on
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Treasure ChestWriting-related resources, news, and reflections to enjoy over the weekend.

  • An inspirational success story — it seems the seventh time was the charm — from Gigi Rosenberg.
  • And on the other hand: “If you stay in the creative writing game long enough you accumulate plenty of quirky, sad, disheartening, and even enraging publication stories.” So writes John Vanderslice, before detailing one such story of his own (and then offering some broader reflections).
  • Were those creepy V.C. Andrews novels part of your adolescent reading history (as they were part of mine)? Then you’ll definitely want to read “The Ghost Of V.C. Andrews: The Life, Death, And Afterlife Of The Mysterious ‘Flowers In The Attic’ Author.” Maybe even before tomorrow evening brings us a TV-movie adaptation of Flowers in the Attic on Lifetime.
  • I’ve only read one of the three short-story collections that are up for this year’s Story Prize. How about you?
  • And, cross-posted from my other blog (My Machberet): a video of a recent conversation between Alan Cheuse and Joyce Carol Oates.

    • Have a great weekend, everyone.

    Friday Finds for Writers

    by Erika Dreifus on
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    Treasure ChestWriting-related resources, news, and reflections to enjoy over the weekend.

  • Over on Fiction Writers Review, Steven Wingate explains why fiction writers should write prose poems.
  • I haven’t yet read Antonya Nelson’s latest story in The New Yorker (weekend reading, anyone?). But once I have, I’ll go back and read this discussion of the story between Nelson and The New Yorker‘s fiction editor Deborah Treisman.
  • A blog I’m just getting to know: English for Journalists.
  • On the Ploughshares blog, Daniel Morales explains how his MFA degree prepared him for his nonacademic, writer-with-a-day-job workplace.
  • Super-thoughtful post by Cathy Day (no surprise there!) on “how we talk about teaching creative writing.”

    • Have a great weekend, everyone.

    Wednesday’s WIP: Highs & Lows, Or My Writing Year in Review

    by Erika Dreifus on
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    calendar_2013Much as I love Lisa Romeo’s idea of an annual “I Did It” list to summarize my writing year, I’m going to kick it back old-school here and simply list a few professional highs–and not-so-highs–that I will remember about 2013. (more…)