Abandoning the Mission
I make my way on the orange line to the State Street train station in hopes of heading to my sacred writing […]
Tag: fiction
Imagining Empathy
At the beginning of May, I had the opportunity to go to a talk with Clint Smith, writer and scholar, and Jesmyn […]
Writers’ Math
Some writer’s math: The protagonist of my novel manuscript, Jonas Adams Abraham, is 12 going on 13. The manuscript itself is 12. […]
Not Everything Has To Be Work
As a teenager, taking writing workshops as part of my arts school concentration, I remember submitting to a contest with a group […]
What Happens on Submission Stays on Submission
When I was querying literary agents for the first (and second, and third) time, I kept a moderately active Blogspot. Nothing too […]
In Defense of the Second Person
Lately, I’ve been questioning the use of the second person point of view in fiction. The you pronoun features prominently in my […]
Writing… Or Not
Writing. It’s not something that’s been happening since November for me. First there was the election, then illness, the end of the […]
WROB Fellowship Applications Due 1/15/17!
The Writers’ Room of Boston awards annual fellowships to four emerging local writers who lack sufficient funds to secure a quiet place […]
Me in My Book
A new friend recently told me that they’d started reading my book. Initially I was, of course, happy that they’d bought a […]
Shifting Sands
Before I started writing fiction I worked as an economics consultant, and before that, I was an electronics engineer. In none of […]