Where is the line between critique of the writer and critique of the work?
WRITING LIFE: #MeToo, Myself, and My Work by Pietra Dunmore
Category: Writing Life
Our Writing Life column archive, which features an array of guest contributors.
WRITING LIFE: How Not to Get an MFA – A Step by Step Guide by Ann Klotz
For some, the idea of pursuing an MFA degree is overwhelming, complicated, or impossible.
WRITING LIFE: On Envy and Faith by Wendy Fontaine
Lately, scrolling through Facebook and Twitter makes me feel like a literary loser.
The Writing Life: Shut Up and Write by Kristina Moriconi
Shut Up and Write! There are books. Meetups. Online sessions. There are methods marketed to writers who want to write but, due to any number of circumstances, cannot get the words down on the page. Writer’s block. Lack of time. Lack of discipline. I am not here to tell you those methods can’t work sometimes.…
Writing Life: The Never-Nudes of Writing by Abbie Kopf
In today’s writing market, the best thing for your career is a willingness to detail every flagellation of life…
WRITING LIFE: Confessions of a Working Writer by Penny Guisinger
I’m a creature known as a working writer… I am also a creature known as a literary writer.
WRITING LIFE: Rejection and Resilience by Jennifer Case
I would graduate in a few months. I was supposed to be joyous. Yet I was not.
WRITING LIFE: Writing My Way Out by Jonathan Freeman-Coppadge
My writing career peaked at age seven. I had been hunched over my dad’s Apple IIc for weeks, clad in my pajamas…
Writing Life: Falling in Love with Monsters: On Memoir and Unconditional Love by Tawni Waters
As I’ve delved more…deeply into other great memoirs, and into life in general, I’ve realized that no person, if observed closely, could ever come out on the other end of scrutiny looking anything other than messy,
WRITING LIFE: My (Real) Life with the Lincolns by Gayle Brandeis
I wanted to write a memoir called My Life with the Lincolns, paralleling my family’s story with the Lincoln family’s story.
