Timing
So what does a twice rejected nascent writer do after the receiving the latest in a series of loud and echoing No’s? Well, of course she gets right back in the saddle and fires off a few short stories to five different literary magazines and makes sure she enters a couple writing contests and decides […]
My O and His Existential Crisis
Last week was a banner week. The term banner means “unusually good”. But it can also mean just outstanding. To me outstanding can be good or bad, as long as it’s not ordinary. Last week was outstanding in that it was an advent, the beginning of the second half of my O’s childhood, where […]
Without Tears or Recrimination
We waited for a bleak, gray day to talk about it. That’s always the way. It’s so much easier to be confrontational when the weather is as dank and misty. Frustration can simmer even on the sunniest of days but in the gloom of February it just seems impossible to ignore.
Admittedly we’ve been patching it […]
Personal Statement of the Desperate Variety
Dear Esteemed, Professional Writers Who Will Either Grant or Deny My Enrollment in the ‘08/’09 Creative Writer’s Workshop,
I am struggling with the task of writing a second personal statement. First there’s the issue of a title. Should I call it my Very Personal Statement? Maybe last year’s essay, titled just Personal Statement, was not […]
