Sunday night, over Instant Messenger, I helped my ten-year-old niece Jaycie with a writing project. She was working on her application to be a reporter for her elementary school’s newspaper. I’m still a little surprised…
Browsing Category Writing
Things I am looking forward to doing now that my stupid short story is done
Reading The Night of the Gun without any kind of guilt at all about how I should be writing Forgiving Lorrie Moore for not helping in my second-person-hour-of-need when I really needed her Sleeping through…
Germ-induced narcolepsy and the second person
Do you have any idea how hard it is to finish a short story when you can’t seem to stay awake for more than four hours in a row? Probably not. My brain is so…
Everything I’m Cracked Up to Be
Here’s the thing with rock and roll memoirs (at least this is the thing I’m getting after reading, well, two) stories about playing crowded, smoky clubs all the sound the same after you hear about…
Proof #481 that I am psychic
I was just sitting here staring at a blank word doc waiting for brilliance to appear, an “A Different World” rerun on in the background when I was hit by a tidal wave of craving…