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“What Do I Know About Writing Anyway?” One Writer’s Quest for Critiquing Confidence: A Guest Post
Last month I had the good fortune — and the great fun! — of hosting my fellow Darling Assassin Monica Roe with her sage writing advice about working in the NOW. Today, another VCFA classmate, Tziporah Cohen, agreed to share the wisdom she picked up with her MFA over the last two years. Darling Assassins is the name of my Vermont College…
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The Problem With When (And the Cumulative Power of Now): A Guest Post
A lot has been going on over here behind the Magic Mirror: some of it writing-related, much of it big and exciting life changes and I promise to explain more soon(ish) 🙂 In the meantime though, I wanted to reach out to my wise and talented writing siblings, my Vermont College of Fine Arts classmates, The…
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Building A Meaningful Writing Life
People think that writers enroll in an MFA program on a quest for publication, the shiniest treasure of all. And maybe some writers do. Okay, many do. Most. I guess I did, too. I enrolled in the program with that shiny goal in mind. And then, after intense writing and reading and studying, one of the biggest lessons…
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What I’ve Learned: MFA in a Nutshell, Part 2
Hi all, Sorry for the delay. Figuring out post-MFA grownup life is time-consuming business! That, and completing the revisions, of course 😉 But now, let’s continue the (quite ambitious) list of all the things I have learned during my intense two years in the Vermont College of Fine Arts Writing for Children and Young Adults…
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What I’ve Learned: MFA in a Nutshell, Part 1
Hey all! I am, of course, back from my final VCFA residency, a shiny new MFA in hand. It’s fun to look back on the incredible, enriching, life-changing journey this has been and take a moment to talk about what I’ve learned. First, let me quantify it for you: two years of learning, what exactly did it…
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Questions and Answers
Hard to believe Hanukkah is almost over, Christmas almost upon us, the year almost through, my very last MFA semester completed. As I am wrapping up the preparations for my final Vermont College of Fine Arts residency (!!), I think it’s appropriate to share one last lecture post I had promised you. This one comes courtesy of…
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The Value of Adults
My teenage son was peeking over my shoulder, and when he read this title, he laughed. I didn’t ask him what was funny — that adults have value? — or that we are at a point of needing to blog about it? But we do. Need to talk about it. During the summer residency at the…
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A Very Belated and Very Zen Bit (or Should I Say “Bead?”) of Writing Wisdom
It seems crazy that I am only now getting around to sharing such a long-promised post, about a graduate lecture from the summer’s residency by a fellow Vermont College of Fine Arts now-alumni Joe McGee. Crazy, when I am now finalizing work on my own upcoming lecture for January! (Gulp). Nevertheless, here goes! Joe’s lecture, ZEN…
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Five Ways To Get Closer
That’s what I have been doing, the reason you guys haven’t heard from me in a while (ahem): I have been getting closer to my characters. Especially the protagonist of my creative thesis, a novel for young readers, 75-80 pages of which I am to send to the MFA program office by December in order to…
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So you think you’re done…
Or at least, well, that’s what I thought. Sort of. When back in May, in my third semester, I finished a new draft of a novel I had been working on for…ahem…a lot of years, I was ecstatic. But the glorious feeling that yes, I got it, that I nailed it this time, lasted for about…oh, twenty minutes. After…
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