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 [...]
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 [...]