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People do MFAs in writing for various reasons. Personally, I was tired of writing bad novels all by myself in a candlelit room. I wanted to learn how to write a good one. But by the time I finished my MFA (which was 2 years), I was in a different head space around work. My …
Thursday Postcard Pull out your wallet and prepare to enter Hell. Hell on wheels, that is! The International 3-Day Novel Contest approacheth. Founded by a bunch of writers in a Vancouver bar in 1978 (or something), it is a trial by fire and a total gas. Should fire and gas be in the same sentence, even? Combustible! …
A geek-fest on POV in Flannery O’Connor’s WISE BLOOD. I’ve read a lot of books and I plan to read a lot more, and what I want from each book is to feel interested in the characters. I don’t need to like them, or feel similar to them. I just need to care about what …
Thursday Postcard Writers don’t need much…or do they? A pen, some paper…a computer…power…coffee… Shouldn’t writers be able to work anywhere, at any time? In theory, yes. But Mason Currey’s entertaining book Daily Rituals: How Artists Work shows the sheer variety of things writers have relied on to get going. Pipes, cigarettes, nudity, a special bathrobe, apples, sex, …