Italo Calvino, The Micro Chapter and Writing What Interests You
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Book Discussions, Interview, Musings
Calvino was brave because he sat down to write what interested him – not what might interest other people. He had a day job in a publishing house, and he sought neither celebrity nor wealth. He was the extreme other of the creative writing course wannabe.
He loved the short fictional form, which was a [...]
Tags: craft, Italo Calvino, Jeanette Winterson, Kublai Khan, London Times, Marco Polo, microchapter, Stephanie Meyer, World War II, World War I
The Roots of My Writing Life
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Book Discussions, Musings
My fourth grader has a science project due May 4th and a Mission Project due May 18th.
My high school sophomore’s paper on comparing and contrasting the Holocaust to The Rwandan genocide is due after Easter Break.
And then my college senior is graduating May 22 ,2009. The Baccalaureate service takes place the night before, and graduation [...]
Tags: children, mother, mother's day, planning, reading, time, writing, writing life
Writing | Labor of Love or Love of the Labor
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Book Discussions, Event, Musings
So you want to write the next Great American Novel. You sit in front of your computer, hands ready to type, ideas filling your mind to the brim, and you begin to write. What happens next is the difference between a writer and everyone else.
(my response to Andrew Sprong’s Blog, Writing is Labor of Love [...]
Tags: agent, and, Andrew Sprong, angels, bestseller, book, brown, code, da, dan, demons, list, money, novel, poor, publicist, publishing, rich, self, sprong, vinci, writing
Writing | Labor of Love or Love of the Labor
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Book Discussions, Event, Musings
So you want to write the next Great American Novel. You sit in front of your computer, hands ready to type, ideas filling your mind to the brim, and you begin to write. What happens next is the difference between a writer and everyone else.
(my response to Andrew Sprong’s Blog, Writing is Labor of Love [...]
Tags: agent, and, Andrew Sprong, angels, bestseller, book, brown, code, da, dan, demons, list, money, novel, poor, publicist, publishing, rich, self, sprong, vinci, writing
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