Archive for May, 2006
Agent query letters are off…
…and I'm having a 19th nervous meltdown, but in a good way…
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Memo to the press…
Distinguished members of the press, get out your pen and notebooks and copy this 500 times:
Curtis Sittenfeld does not write chick lit.
Curtis Sittenfeld does not write chick lit.
Curtis Sittenfeld does not write chick lit.
Curtis Sittenfeld does not write chick lit.
It's not chick lit, damn it!
The Season Kickoffs Begin…
…Stanley Kunitz has passed…
…and I have 866 pages of text to cut to below 400…
Eudora Wilting, or, Why I’m Glad I DON’T Live at the P.O.
I know laziness is its own punishment, but I don't feel like hunting down the link to this week's NY Times article about the grand public opening of Eudora Welty's house. Miss Eudora's essay, "One Writer's Beginnings", graced the first section of my Writing Fiction textbook in college. It was as colorful and genteel as [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )My Muse’s Gone Now
Enough soul drama this week for a Gershwin melody. Or maybe not.
I've mentioned before my "field work" at a local coffeehouse where I've spent these past five months hanging out, chilling out and singling out a few unwitting employees for "field work": recording their mannerisms, dialogue, and every wart and wrinkle on their bodies for inspiration [...]
