Writer. Contributing Editor at The Discarded Image. Digital Content Strategist. Here's where I publicly explore the books I'm reading, the projects I'm working on, and other current interests. Category Archives for Well Said
Well Said: the fuel of fiction
Novelist Wally Lamb (She’s Come Undone; I Know This Much is True; The Hour I First Believed) in an interview on his fiction-writing process compiled for the book Novel Ideas: You’ve said that you are a questioning Catholic. Does that questioning fuel … Continue reading
Well Said: “don’t write angry”
Fiction writer Maggie Shipstead’s take on writing what you know: …Six or seven of my previous stories were set there. “Via Serenidad” is, however, my first story about the place where I grew up, my first in which Orange County isn’t just … Continue reading
Well Said: on writing in community
Poet Nikky Finney on writing in community: You know, it’s so funny, growing up in a small town, going to a very small college, I have never in my life had a creative writing class as a student. Never. They … Continue reading
Well said: Welty on the shared reader/writer experience
This week, Eudora Welty is my mentor on the craft of writing. Here are some of her comments on the reading and writing of short stories: Reader and writer make it a double experience. It is part of the great … Continue reading
