Every time I want to stop, I think of the day Tom told me, as we walked to his truck after Writing in Action day, that he thought I was a fiction writer. “You know, I used to write poetry.” “Bullshit.” “I did!” And he got into his truck and drove home. I went back [...]
Posts Tagged ‘fiction’
I can write fiction. I can write fiction.
Posted in Crisis, Writing, tagged Crisis, fiction, i can do it, little engine that could, Tom Bailey on May 3, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Understanding Poetry vs. Fiction
Posted in Something Else, Writing, tagged accessibility, editing and publishing, fiction, poetry, ryan rickrode, Tom Bailey on April 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
So I’m starting to realize that I’m one of the few writers that (despite my bitiching) seriously considers themselves writers in all of the main genres (fiction, poetry, and non-fiction [ok, so I haven't written non fiction recently, but I will]). One thing that really bothers me is when people stand ground in their genre [...]
Fiction…again
Posted in Crisis, Writing, tagged boners, fiction, grandfather story, naked picture on April 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So my workshop for the naked pictures story went really well. Bailey called it a “breakthrough” story for me which essentially equalled “Hey Liz! Guess what? You CAN still write fiction!” As a note, that piddley 12 page draft ended up being a solid 19 pages, which I was very proud of. Now I just [...]
Now…to hear from RiverCraft
Posted in Writing, tagged fiction, Girls from the River School, karla kelsey, Naked story, poetry, Writing on March 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So, feeling a little better about fiction, at least my naked pictures story. I wrote a solid two pages of dialogue yesterday and plan on re-writing the first couple of pages today giving context to his daughter and shit. You know, you know. Okay, so maybe I’ve decided that the Grandfather story will have to be [...]
Punch in the Gut
Posted in Crisis, Reading, Something Else, Writing, tagged caviar, character, Crisis, failure, fiction, guillotine, shakespeare, working through it on March 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
So I got my first response to “Mechanics,” and it was just as much a punch in the gut as workshop usually is, except it came from the beautiful Becky Shealy, so it was at least pretty. FIRST–self-deprecating, whiny rant: OH! That’s right! The reason none of my stories go past twelve pages is because [...]
I wasn’t going to,
Posted in Crisis, Something Else, Writing, tagged awp, diaryland, fiction, i'm cool, indie, new blog, trendy, voice on March 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
But I did. I started a blog. Neat, right? Maybe I’m doing this because I feel that my voice means something in writing community (my little, sophomore, youngest-one-I-met-at-AWP-was-myself, undergrad voice), maybe I’m avoiding reading my fiction (thus allowing me to avoid WRITING fiction), maybe I just want to be able to have all my friend’s [...]
