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Category Archives: Reading and Writing
Technology and Creativity
Last Autumn, in my first writing workshop, I joked that the difference between a Master of Information Technology and a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) is I can do my MFA homework while resting in my hammock. While that statement … Continue reading
Poetry’s Sonnet
Tonight I was collaborating with former New Hampshire Poet Laureate, Marie Harris, to prepare for her upcoming Webinar about the Prose Poem (Monday at 7 PM–register through the NH Writers’ Project). We discussed various types of poems. She described the … Continue reading
An Innocuous Older in the Youngers’ Court
According to Ashton Applewhite in This Chair Rocks:A Manifesto Against Ageism, at 5:10 tonight, when I enter my writing class, I will be an “Older”. Older is a relative term; not of bucket into which a person is placed. There are … Continue reading
Posted in Reading and Writing, Self Confidence
Tagged #amwriting, MFA, Olders, Youngers
Manuscript Review
Last Thursday, I sent the third draft of my story to an editor for a manuscript review. Note the choice of the word “story”. Not novel. Not its working title. Just a story. Now, self doubt and insecurities roost upon … Continue reading
LAFL: Cut from Waterford
This is a flashback, cut from Love at First Lilt. Carly is remembering her mother, who died when she was a teenager. When Carly was twelve, there came the night of the first spring full moon. It was a crisp … Continue reading
