There is a writing life. And you could lead it if you could only get past everything else, which is to say yourself. This is what a lot of writers eventually believe, even if they don’t start out that way. Maybe you believe it, too. It’s not the wrong way to think (tell me there’s… Continue reading Of Trouble, Money, and the So-called Writing Life
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The Genius of Imitation
Creating reproductions of other works requires an extremely high level of technical proficiency. One's subject matter will always be personal, but I want to encourage my students to deliberately acquire new technical skills by taking on the aesthetic of the writers they read. In this sense, every text is a potential writing instructor. I have taught… Continue reading The Genius of Imitation
The Writing Expedition 