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All the day’s activities

Admin — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 06:09:38 +0000

Here was a schedule I had written down somewhere before I really knew how it would turn out. Some of it is valid but most of it is wildly inaccurate.

9:30 am Gym and jumparoo workout time
10:00 am Short nap
11:00 am Morning conversation
11:30 am 1st Feeding
Noon Longer Nap
1:00 – 2:00 pm Mobile chores or activities
2:00 pm 2nd Feeding
2:30 pm Music, reading, play time – nap if requested
3:30 pm 3rd feeding
4:00 pm 3 mile run (if rain, weapons training)
5:00 pm Cool down time, hand-off

Mostly fiction

Admin — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 02:44:17 +0000

I gave a fiction reading at the college tonight. A surprisingly large crowd and lively Q&A. And nearly every member of the English Department attended—I guess we’re not in Missouri any more…

I know what you wrote last summer

Admin — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 22:21:30 +0000

One difference between teaching creative writing at a Missouri state university and a private college in New York: the use of the “summer lakehouse” setting in student stories has just tripled here in NY.

I found I was having trouble concentrating

Admin — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:33:00 +0000

Raymond Carver’s “On Writing” has been reprinted online. A perfect meandering meditation on the short story form.

Furious submissions

Admin — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 04:58:53 +0000

Eight Diagrams recently posted an analysis of the most presitigious literary magazines based on Best American Short Stories Anthology reprints and followed up with another version based on the O. Henry Prize Stories.

The first analysis includes handy links to the journals. When you combine that with Sand Hill’s top magazine list (with direct links to guidelines) and our own fiction contest listings, a holy triumvirate of useful submission information is formed.

Remember remember

Admin — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 18:57:17 +0000

I updated the fiction contest listings (at least through November). Added a couple of new ones, too. You owe it to yourself to at least send something to the free contests.

Anti-entropic

Admin — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 06:29:35 +0000

“Whatever seeks out harm and avoids rewards must act against entropy. … determining to write has been an anti-entropic process for me. Even now I don’t understand why I do it, except for the fact that it is against entropy.” —from Wang Xiaobo’s “Why Do I Write”