motivation
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New Year, New Class, New Starts
First, the business. New writing workshop starting January 27th, 2015. Now, the musings. There’s something about the New Year that has everyone ready to put the old behind and make a fresh start. This time last year, I had well and truly overloaded myself with writing-relating activity–MFA playwriting class, a short fiction craft class with Zsuzsi…
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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…
Sonal Champsee 