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No Longer Writing in a Vacuum

Posted by: Crystal King on: October 11, 2007

When I was doing my undergrad I spent my time among colleagues who loved literature and writing. I received ongoing feedback on whatever I was working on–poetry, essays, fiction. After school I managed to get myself married right away, which I shouldn’t have. My focus was destroyed, my friendships in the literary world gradually became [...]

crazy man on cell phone and other quirks

Posted by: Crystal King on: September 20, 2007

I need to get better at writing things down. Character ideas. Plot possibilities. Dialogue. All those things that I glean from every day life. Life is definitely stranger than fiction. In my novel-writing workshop we often talk about how things that happen in real life can seem too strange in fiction and may not be [...]

Perhaps She Caught a Tesseract: RIP Madeleine L’Engle

Posted by: Crystal King on: September 8, 2007

News of her passing just came out in the NY Times.
I just wrote about her a little over a week ago, about the wonderful advice she gave in the book, Madeleine L’Engle {Herself}, how inspirational she was and how I met her briefly when I was in the 7th grade. Oh how I wish I [...]


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