Writer’s Resolutions
Happy New Year! The slate is clean. It’s time for some New Year’s Resolutions, for the writer: I will write. I will not […]
Tag: writing
Community
The introvert in me recoiled from social interaction at a writer’s residency I attended a few years ago, not because I wanted a […]
On Floating
Here are a number of indecisions—if they can be called that—that have plagued me lately. Whether I felt like typing or writing […]
Keeping Records
When I spent two weeks at the VCCA last year, I wrote poem after poem after poem about Virginia—growing up there, burying […]
Thoughts on the Fourth of July
When I think of the Fourth of July, I think of stories. Fifty-nine years ago, my grandparents took advantage of cheap reception hall […]
Writers as Readers
The Writers’ Room of Boston held its annual reading on June 9, featuring members and fellows reading from their works-in-progress in a […]
Artist Self
Several years ago I wrote a few short stories, one after another, that each had some kind of artist for a protagonist. […]
Summer Reading
Recently, I walked into a bookstore with my nine-year-old daughter and said, choose a book you want—anything under ten dollars. She surprised me […]
From Reading to Writing
One of my most vivid childhood memories is among my most painful. It was the first day of first grade, and our task […]
On Acceptance
When I enter the Writers’ Room of Boston, the successful works of writers greet me. Displayed in the foyer are the completed […]