I was eight and journaling and writing bad poetry. I didn’t think then about “being a writer”; I just was one.
For me, fleshing out ideas and revising my work are the most frustrating and correspondingly rewarding aspects of writing.
Really, everything. But the most gratifying aspect of teaching is seeing writers take feedback and make it their own, and seeing their work improve as a result.
On Becoming a Novelist, by the late John Gardner, and Hold the Dark, by William Giraldi.
“Craft enables art.” From Steering the Craft, by Ursula Le Guin.
BY AMANDA PARRISH MORGAN It’s become a bit of a truism to point out that if a career has an “appreciation week” it’s a sign those employees are underpaid. After all–while I very much appreciated the anesthesiologist who administered the epidural I’d begun asking for the moment my water broke,
BY DEVON PIKE It’s so warm that I can’t remember what cold feels like when I start to pack the car and so I make mistakes, make myself late. I let the dog distract me. I consider planting the bulbs in the planters, but I get that one right, leave
