Fanfare, please! Ta-da! We have two winners of John Jodzio’s signed short story collection, If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home. They are, in no official order: Dani Rice & Jess [If the two of you would e-mail me at comment4elissa at gmail dot com (or FB me) with your address, I’ll gladly mail […]
Devotion
Recently, I read Dani Shapiro’s memoir Devotion, in which she’d come to a crisis point in her life, where her son was asking her what she believed, and she didn’t know what to tell him. Devotion is Shapiro’s quest for that answer (or should I say answers?). On so many levels, I was wrung out […]
Writing Poems
Did you know April is National Poetry Month? Are you someone who appreciates a lovely turn of phrase or a particularly vivid description? Have you always dreamed of trying your hand at it? Whatever the case, did you know you can be involved? If you’d like to get a daily gift in your email inbox […]
Ten Rules for Writing Fiction
The Guardian published “Ten Rules for Writing Fiction” from each of 29 well-known authors–Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, Hilary Mantel, Michael Moorcock, Michael Morpurgo, Andrew Motion, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Proulx, Philip […]
The Writing Life
Have you read The Writing Life by Annie Dillard? You should, you should, if you’re a writer (or any sort of artist). Aren’t we all, in a way? I’m in the throes of writing again, so these quotes mean something to me. Perhaps you’d like to listen in… “So it is that a writer writes […]