Outdo your heroes 9 comments
Who are your heroes in your field? What would outdoing them look like? Are you aiming that high? How could you get there? Think of […]
Yearly Archives: 2014
Artists are here to disturb the peace 6 comments
Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true […]
Art of Resistance 4 comments
…art of resistance (…): that is, art that works to resist erasure and oppression, art that revisits and revises history, art that that tells new […]
In the end it is only the truth that is right 4 comments
For two extraordinary years I have been working on it — learning to write — but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first […]
What is your biggest writing obstacle? 14 comments
I want to know what’s going on with you and your writing, so I have put together a short survey to ask about the biggest […]
Real Talk about Implicit Bias
I am pleased to have a new article out today on Wellywood Woman, the site of my friend New Zealand writer and activist Marian Evans, […]
Anthony Minghella: Waiting is part of writing 5 comments
I’ve stopped unravelling everytime I’m unable to write. I wait. The drawer opens. Waiting is part of writing. — Anthony Minghella, in an interview by […]
Adapting Your Own Novel for the Screen 10 comments
My friend Ellen Meister, author of Farewell, Dorothy Parker, was asking today about how novelists can get started with adapting their own work.