Yesterday, I was talking to a class about the process of revision after having read Joy Williams’s “Uncanny Singing That Comes from Certain Husks.” I haven’t read very much Joy Williams (I was substituting for a fellow PhD student’s Beginning Creative Writing class, which is how I encountered this essay), but as much as IContinue reading “Ten years after my first story”
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What I should be writing, what I want to write, and what I am writing
A few days ago, as an in-class prompt for my fiction writing class, I posed these questions to my students: What is your ideal novel? What story do you want to tell? What story do you want to see out in the world? When I posed these questions to my class, I realized that itContinue reading “What I should be writing, what I want to write, and what I am writing”
Antifiction as antidote
Contemporary novels and stories tend to pare away excesses in favor of a tidier narrative. In antifiction, though, these improbable events are not too unbelievable.
Caroliena Cabada 