and writing. But it took me at least three years to get to that point. TQO: How does teaching fiction ... people care about. It’s their wants, needs, pains. They are giving you their darlings to kill. It ... Tallahassee; and now at Northwestern University. Her book Writing Fiction: A Guide to the Narrative Craft ...
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when you think you know what the piece is about—neighborhoods, television, cat temples—it becomes about ... making. It’s hard to talk about the video essay without pointing to Chris Marker and Agnes Varda—the ... juxtapositions and the poetic nature of the video essay. Like the literary side of its family, the video essay ...
When we made love, we always climaxed together. I would feel his rhythm against me, the intrepid ... look into adopting a dog. At one point, he even told me he wanted to write a memoir. I reached into ... the armhole of my shirt and stroked his spine. You should, love, I said. You should write a memoir ...
abstract in their writing, you know. They have the hardest time being specific about anything, grounding ... having the semblance of truth.” “Do you notice anything about these words now? Tell me what they have in ... noun, isn’t it? We can call to mind a bottle of Coke even when we aren’t looking at one, right?” They ...
www.dinahlenney.com. Contributions Issue 145 Winter/Spring 2014 Wednesday, January 15, 2014 Craft Essay Not-Quite-Naked ... Contributor Dinah Lenney is the author of Bigger Than Life: A Murder, a Memoir, and co-authored ... Acting for Young Actors. She serves as core faculty for the Bennington Writing Seminars, the Rainier ...
critique the world and craft poetry from it. My writing, my reading, my study of poetry had to evolve, not ... write about her, it became almost essential, for the sake of just getting to understand myself better, ... stuck with me. His recitation often comes to mind when I’m crafting poems in my head in the early ...
Mister Essay Writer Guy, as well as the memoir Between Panic & Desire, winner of the Grub Street ... 146 Summer/Fall 2014 Tuesday, July 15, 2014 Craft Essay “One Hell of a Lot of Muck”: On Joyce, Pound, ... Contributor Dinty W. Moore is author of the forthcoming collection of humorous essays, Dear ...
Malaysia, London and France. I’m generally not conscious of place when I write, and every book has its own ... understand the argument that you need to be in your home country to write about it – I’m a fiction writer, ... encapsulated in literature. The people I know and write about are engaged in life-building, but it seems that ...
that reader’s responsibility? When interacting with a video essay, will a reader simply need to think ... it would be impossible to argue against this frequency. For me, the most exciting complication that ... case of this essay, I tried for a few months to conceive of it in print, but couldn’t get the seams to ...
try to construct a unified theory of cab driving, and though most readers will come to love Hack ’s ... a lightbulb,” he writes of the young drunks. “They call each other only by last name as if they’re teammates, ... Only occasionally does smugness rear its head, such as when Samarov renders this description of ...