fiction

  • Success when you aren’t going to Succeed

    Sometimes I think that if writers lived in a rarified environment of other artists, the notion of ‘success’ would be less esteem-killing. But I also think we’d be really, really irritating. And broke. When I was last among a group of writer-friends, the Carver/Lish controversy came up, and someone asked, “If someone was going to…

  • Writer Tag and Blog Hop

    The last time one of these went around (that I knew about, anyway) I didn’t quite think I was writer enough to participate. So I avoided the whole thing and eventually it went away. I regretted not participating, and letting fear get in the way. Anyway, I was tagged by Brent van Staalduinen, a writer who…