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Recent Posts:

  • Author’s Note: The Art of Brevity
  • A Creative Manifesto
  • The Ides of March: The Most Dangerous Time for New Year’s Resolutions
  • Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo
  • On Failing Better, Failing Bigger, Failing Magnificently
  • Inspiration is a rare sighting (like Bigfoot)
  • The Art of the Mini Writing Retreat
  • The Key to Whole-Hearted Writing: Embrace Vulnerability
  • On the Publication of Fissures
  • An Author Reads in Public
  • For the Love of a Good Cover Design
  • On Goal Setting: Lapsing and Not Lapsing and Monthly Resolutions
  • Boredom: the Secret Passageway to Creativity
  • On Hallowed Ground at Granddaddy Faulkner’s House
  • The Author as Hero
  • The Power of Getting More Ideas Faster
  • Paul Bowles by His Friends
  • Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida: Absence as Presence
  • Resilience More Important Than Any Writing Tip
  • Dancing the Tango. Writing the Novel.
  • The Art of Stealing: Creativity Redefined
  • Serialization as Writing Process
  • Puerto del Sol: ‘Blue Highways’
  • On Revision
  • On Creative Momentum
  • The Never Ending Journey of One’s Writing Process
  • First Self-Publishing Project: The Names of All Things
  • Stretch Goals. Telling, Not Showing. Lit Crawl 2013. Trepidation.
  • Thinking About My Daily Writing Rituals
  • Viking Helmets and Writing
  • A Day with Jim Carroll: Love Poem as Fix, Grace, Reconciliation
  • Francesca Woodman: Model Upside Down on the Stairs
  • John Cage: The Excitements of Boredom
  • The Ways Poetry Can Improve Your Prose
  • Tebowing: A Found Poem
  • A View Askew: Hotel Amerika
  • Writing Residencies: A Chance to Write in One’s Best Hours
  • On David Milch: Writing with an Oceanic Sense
  • Writing in Fragments
  • Dean Young: Failing Better
  • Revision Tip No. 2,043: The Art of Dancing to Guy Lombardo while Drumming to Mingus
  • The 1,394 Word Sentence (Which Is a Story)
  • The Things I Like About 100 Word Story
  • The Short, Short Story: 100 Word Story Magazine
  • Hotel Amerika’s Take on Great American Literature
  • Laura Albert and JT LeRoy: Mask as Muse
  • J.M.G. Le Clezio: Loss in the Foreign Lands of Ourselves
  • Finding Oneself in Flight. Or Not.
  • Script Frenzy and Me
  • Reality Hunger: A Manifesto that Invites Manifestos
  • The Notion of a Reader: Poet Jack Spicer
  • To Write or Not to Write. To Be or Not to Be.
  • Tamping Down a New Path: PANK Magazine
  • Kierkegaard: A Believer’s Disdain
  • FRiGG Magazine: Friggin’ Good Reading
  • Riding the Monkeybicycle: The Art of Literary Miscellany
  • Reading as Pausing: James Salter
  • 2011 Reading Resolutions: I Aspire
  • Reading Camus: Falling into a Life of Contradictions
  • Hallucinatory Effects: Jim Carroll and the Art of Purity
  • The Used Furniture Review
  • C.P. Cavafy and His Histories of Desire
  • Literary Magazines on the Make?
  • Invisible City Audio Tour: A Surreal Oakland Adventure
  • Emperor Franzen and the Jonathan Franzen Publicity Machine
  • Writerliness Gone Mad, the Fetishization of Detail
  • Paul Strohm and the Art of the 100 Word Story
  • Writing Tip No. 647: Never Try to Please the Boss
  • Writing tips. And more writing tips…
  • Writing tip no. 3,046: Sam Shepherd and voices and cowboy mouths
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  • The Strange Hours Travelers Keep by August Kleinzhaler
  • The Eternal Life of Holden Caulfield
  • How Fiction Works by James Wood
  • The death of fiction…one more time
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  • How to Write? The Definition of an Author
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  • Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates
  • The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud
  • Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse: Adolescent Reading, Adult Reading
  • Lionel Trilling: Fiction and Politics
  • Lit Folks, Don’t Take Yourself Too Seriously
  • Buster Keaton: Go West Young Man
  • On the Subject of Plot: Marilynne Robinson
  • The Concept of Plot
  • Literary Genius: The Ugliness of It All
  • Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop: A Love Affair of Letters
  • American Fiction: The Suicide of Detail
  • Emily Dickinson: Truth at a Slant
  • The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
  • Persepolis: The Value of a Child’s Point of View
  • The Last of the Big Beards: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Writing–Or Not Writing–About Work
  • T.S. Eliot and Portishead: Never Doubt That T.S. Eliot Is Cool
  • Henry Green: Loving

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Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month, co-founder of 100 Word Story, writer, tap dancer, alchemist, contortionist, numbskull, preacher. Read More…

The Art of Brevity

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Fissures

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The Names of All Things

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Recent Posts

  • Author’s Note: The Art of Brevity
  • A Creative Manifesto
  • The Ides of March: The Most Dangerous Time for New Year’s Resolutions
  • Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo
  • On Failing Better, Failing Bigger, Failing Magnificently

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