As I write this blog, I sort of understand the impulse to write so much lead-in. I’ve shared the big news: now where to do I from here?
Tag Archives: writing advice
I used to write so much
Every semester I try to do the assignments along with my students partly as a way for me to keep up my own writing practice (I write things I turn in for my classes sometimes), and partly to experience for myself what my students experience when I walk them through a multi-stage writing prompt, or set draft deadlines at certain intervals.
Hopelessness
Near the end of the first-year composition class I taught this summer, one of my students asked, How do you pay attention to the news without feeling totally hopeless?
Sept/Oct 2021 issue of Poets & Writers: My MFA
I talk about Iowa State’s Creative Writing and Environment MFA in the September/October 2021 issue of Poets & Writers!
Being green (with youth, with envy)
I am 26 years old now. This coming week, I’ll be turning 27. I’m still laughably, sickeningly young, and yet also worried that the youth card will be revoked soon.
Author Toolbox Blog Hop: Building a reputation (beyond writing and publishing)
Building your writing reputation can help you get off on the right foot when you start gaining traction with your writing.
Author Toolbox Blog Hop: Keep a little of your self for yourself
I sometimes worry that, although I am writing fiction, readers may try to “decode” the story by retracing my steps to find the original sliver of my reality that served as the starting point, and then take it one step too far to try and decode me.
Author Toolbox Blog Hop: Duotrope and the resume of failures
Alongside the resume I regularly update, I have another document that gets a similar treatment that’s almost like my resume’s shadow.
Author Toolbox Blog Hop: Practicing voice
Over the course of the four novels, I became so familiar with the voice of the point of view character, a woman named Elena Greco, that I felt myself unconsciously starting to write in it.
Author Toolbox Blog Hop: Creating writing prompts
I’m happier with my prompted writing because it allows me to tailor my prompts to what I’m working on, which allows me to be more productive with my time.
Caroliena Cabada 