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The pond novel has three main characters, but Anna and I both agree that, in this first draft, one of them is just much more compelling than the other two. This is because we’ve figured out more about his desires and motivations, and those elements are driving his story. The…
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I had high hopes of writing this week’s ten pages while at AWP. I know! Cue laugh track! But I did actually knock out a couple of pages on Saturday…
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Anna and I spent yesterday afternoon trying to figure out the rest of the pond novel’s plot, and I think we got a lot of it. We definitely have the…
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Pond novel is at 160 pages (if you’re paying close attention, you’ll note that I missed my 10 pages last week). Coming off eight days of no school…
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I am very sad about the shuttering of Catapult’s literary magazine and writing classes. When I first started submitting stories, Catapult was my dream…
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Some weeks, there is nothing really to remark upon. The novel progresses, the making of it steady and daily. And the rest of life progresses, and is…
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It’s beginning: the itch to return to the glass house novel. I felt so stuck last summer when I stepped away from it, but now ideas are starting to…
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Word-count goals, page-count goals, accountability groups, and winter
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