Writing Inspiration (Prompt 2 #swinpires)
The author of this prompt (the awesome Deborah Siegel) says the answer to this can be short, so here is my short (and somewhat facile) answer to what inspires me to keep writing: “deadlines.”...
View ArticleWriting Inspiration–Who (Prompt 3 #swinspires)
I have to confess to struggling a bit with these prompts as I don’t consider myself a “writer,” but rather someonewhose job requires a fair amount of writing. I do, after all, spend large chunks of my...
View ArticleObsessions (Prompt 7 #swinspires)
Elfriede Jelinek at Cafe Korb in Vienna Currently, I am in the process of finalizing the manuscript for my first book, which is a revision of my dissertation, “Obscene Fantasies”: Elfriede Jelinek’s...
View ArticleAvoidance (#reverb10)
The big thing that I should have done in 2010 but didn’t was complete my book manuscript. Not because I was scared, worried, or unsure, but because I had (and am still having) a hard time figuring out...
View ArticleI Don’t Think I Have a Core Story (#reverb10)
Unsurprisingly, I’m going to have to agree with Dr. Crazy on the actual prompt for today: Jesus H. Christ. I’m just going to pretend that the whole “core story” business is not part of this prompt,...
View ArticleOn Writing
Heady after #reverb10 and feeling overly ambitious (what is it about the New Year that does that to us?), I and many of my blogging friends signed up for the WordPress Post a Day Challenge. At the same...
View ArticleTesting 1, 2
In the next few months, I have quite a bit of travel coming up (5 trips in a little over 3 months, including FINALLY some international travel. I haven’t left the country since I went to India in...
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