November Girls seems to have come with a soundtrack. Sometimes stories do, sometimes they really, really don’t. Chris Bachelder, my undergrad fiction teacher, used to advise us to “enfold ourselves in silence” in order to write. A lot of time that works best for me. Sometimes music comes of its own accord. I’d spend a …
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Aug 19
Do One Thing You Fear
Here’s an assignment I gave myself this week: Do at least one thing you fear, or makes you nervous. My successes include: 1. Signing up for classes at the Richard Hugo House. I signed up for a fiction critique class with Nancy Kress (to which I will bring a big ol’ chunk of Novel No. …